(d 1525). Connoisseur–curator and member of the Ami school of ink painting (suibokuga), grandson of (1) Shinno Noami and son of (2) Shingei Geiami. His extant paintings include a landscape on sliding door panels (ink on paper; Kyoto, Daitokuji, Daisen’in) and Landscape of the Four Seasons (pair of screens, ink on paper; New York, Met.; see fig.). He painted in at least two styles: angular, hard-edged ink-painting in the Chinese Southern Song (1127–1279) academic style of the painter XIA GUI, which his father and grandfather had used; and a new Japanese style, which was a synthesis of the softer, more cursive style of the Southern Song painter MUQI as well as the rich ink washes and dots of the MI FU style and some elements from Korean painting. He incorporated Japanese compositional elements from Yamatoe (traditional Japanese painting) into this latter style, and it was adopted by early 16th-century painters, including Kano Motonobu (see KANO, (2)).

Part of the Ami family

• Shinso Soami
  • Ami
  • Connoisseurship, §3: Japan
  • Japan, §XVI, 9(ii)(a): Flower arrangement, 6th–18th centuries
  • Japan, §XIX, 2: Patronage, 13th–16th centuries
  • Kyoto, §I, 2: Urban development, late 12th century–mid-16th
  • works
    • Ami: (1) Shinno Noami
    • Japan, §VI, 4(iii)(e): Ink painting in the Muromachi period: Josetsu & Ashikaga cultural hegemony
    • Japan, §VI, 4(iii)(g): Ink painting in the Muromachi period: Post-Shubun schools
    • Japan, §XXII, 1: Connoisseurship and historiography: Painting contests and catalogues
    • Kyoto, §IV, 5(ii): Daitokuji: Architecture and art works
    • Kyoto, §IV, 7: Ryoanji
    • Kyoto, §IV, 8: Ginkakuji
  • writings
    • Ashikaga
    • Japan, §XXI, 1(ii): Collectors and collections, to 1868