Brief Biography-Tenshō Shūbun was a Japanese priest painter. His earliest record is when the Muromachi Shogunate sent him as a Zen monk to Korea in 1423 on a diplomatic mission. In the 1430s, his reputation as a painter gained several commissions from laypeople and monks. Chinese landscapes of the 12th to 14th centuries primarily influenced his work. His painting Reading in the Bamboo Study is in the Japanese Chinese style Kara-e, a Japanese style modelled after imported Chinese styles. Tenshō Shūbun was a student of Taikō Josetsu, and he was a teacher of Sesshū Tōyō.