The politics of reclusion painting and power in momoyama japan brown kendall h 9780824817794 books amazonca. The politics of reclusion painting and power in momoyama japan brown kendall h 9780824819132 books amazonca. The politics of reclusion paintineg and power in momoyama japan the politics of reclusion kendall h brown university of hawaii press 1997 art 247 pages 1 review the chinese themes of the four graybeards of mt shang and the seven sages of the bamboo grove figure prominently in the art of momoyama period japan ca 1575 1625. The chinese themes of the four graybeards of mt shang and the seven sages of the bamboo grove figure prominently in the art of momoyama period japan ca 1575 1625 kendall brown proposes that the dense and multivalent implications of aesthetic reclusion central to these paintings made them appropriate for patrons of all classes the military who were presently in power the aristocracy . The politics of reclusion painting and power in momoyama japan honolulu university of hawaii 1997 japan incorporated many aspects of chinese culture throughout its formative centuries from linguistic and literary philosophical and religious to painting and tea browns work focuses on a particular aspect of painting during the kamakura