/lit/ - Literature

>>9047492
Again, I'd mark that up to how we look at Japanese art today. First, most of the art that the West took inspiration from Japan, especially ukiyo-e, is by no means medieval. Japan had a print industry as complex as anything found in the west up until the 19th century, and much larger urban populations that consumed it.

Actual medieval Japanese elites preferred Chinese painting (and ceramics, really anything Chinese) to locally made, up at least until the Momoyama period in the 17th century. We might like a Sesshu painting better, but that may be because we are so familiar with the little quirks that separates Japanese from Chinese painting, that would have ranked it as good, but lesser, during the medieval Japanese period.