haboku
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Japanese
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]haboku (uncountable)
- A technique of using splashed ink in brushwork painting, especially for painting a landscape.
- 1979, John M. Rosenfield & William Jay Rathbun, Song of the Brush: Japanese paintings from the Sansō Collection, Seattle Art Museum
- The haboku idiom had appeared in South China in the thirteenth century, and appealed greatly to visiting Japanese Zen Buddhists, who took examples back with them.
- 2004, Benjamin Lee Wren, Teaching World Civilization With Joy and Enthusiasm, page 163:
- In the very year that the Void began in Kyoto, a Zen monk named Sesshu (1420-1506) left for Ming China and brought back to Japan haboku, or splash ink style and a love of wide open spaces in his paintings. […] Haboku reached its zenith during the Muromachi Period (1470–1550) and then declined.
- 2009, Fred S. Kleiner, Gardner's Art Through the Ages: Non-Western Perspectives, 13th edition, page 107:
- His most dramatic works are in the splashed-ink (haboku) style, a technique with Chinese roots. The painter of a haboku picture paused to visualize the image, loaded the brush with ink, and then applied primarily broad, rapid strokes, sometimes even dripping the ink onto the paper.
- 1979, John M. Rosenfield & William Jay Rathbun, Song of the Brush: Japanese paintings from the Sansō Collection, Seattle Art Museum
Usage notes
[edit]Although Japanese has terms to distinguish between the styles of
Translations
[edit]technique of using splashed ink in brushwork painting