Yokoi Kinkoku: The Wandering Monk and Master of Winter’s Soul Yokoi Kinkoku (1761 – 1832) remains a captivating enigma in the history of Japanese art. More than just a painter, he was a wandering monk, a scholar steeped in multiple disciplines—Buddhist philosophy, Confucianism, Sanskrit, and even jōruri music—and a man perpetually caught between the ascetic ideals of his monastic upbringing and the alluring temptations of the world. H…