Tensho Shubun

Japanese priest-painter of the first half of the fifteenth century. During his lifetime, Shubun served as an official artist for the Ashikaga shoguns and Shokokuji, the Kyoto temple at which he was a priest. He was a remarkable sculptor as well as a versatile painter of landscape, flower-and-bird, and Buddhist subjects. Along with folding screens and hanging scrolls, he is also recorded to have excecuted paintings on sliding partitions.