Haboku

Generally, haboku relies on a layered contrast black, gray and white, whereas hatsuboku utilizes "splashes" of ink, without leaving clear contours or outlines.

[1] The style apparently started in the Tang dynasty China with the painter Wang Qia (王洽, fl.

Then, laughing and singing all the while, he would stamp on it with his feet and smear it with his hands, besides swashing and sweeping it with the brush.

[2]During the Song dynasty, some landscapes of Mu Qi's paintings on the Xiao and Xiang rivers exhibit many of its characteristics, and were highly praised in Japan.

In Japan, these styles of painting were spread by the Japanese painter Sesshū Tōyō.