Scrolls of Poem-Paintings by Buddhist Monks of the Late Goryeo and Early Joseon : Records of the “Scrolls of Poems” on the Studio Name and Their Significance

This article examines written records of the now-lost poem-painting scrolls created by Buddhist monks who were active in late Goryeo and early Joseon (the fourteenth through fifteenth centuries) order to reconstruct their artistic exercises reassess significance history East Asian art. The literati painters Yuan China reserved pictorial space landscape painting for narrative or descriptive purposes. In contrast, monk-painters depicted natural features paintings, accompanied poems, as encrypted codes precisely corresponding characters studio names, ho 號 (Ch. hao). Yuan’s Shiwu Qinggong 石屋淸珙 (1272~1352), officially conferred dharma Goryeo’s Taego Bou 太古普愚 (1301~1382), proposed “a single thatched hut depth retreats,” yi an shenyin 一菴深隱, exemplary Chan paintings. monks’ handscroll paintings suggest that painted landscapes combining motifs a retreat with depictions signified names. While monk’s name was central theme painting, each character his also rendered pictorially. further testify played critical role introducing Korea styles Liu Daoquan 劉道權 Li-Guo 李郭 schools, which gained tremendous traction art scene, regarded highly ink monks. It has been widely noted contributed development scholar’s Muromachi Japan. poempaintings themed on names attest significant impact made over not just style but subjects, form, content Japanese Even if many works premodern Korean are now lost, about them still survive. Close examinations such textual sources can help illuminate historical trajectory context history.