3615968 Gibbons in a Landscape, c.1570 (ink on paper) by Sesson Shukei (1504-1589); 157.5x348 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: One of a pair of six-panel screens; ink on paper from the Muromachi period (1392??573) The gibbon\'s cry is associated with the spirit of solitude, and in Daoist lore with a superior life force. Sesson was a Zen monk-artist who played a major role in the Japanese style of Zen ink painting. ); Japanese, out of copyright.