Later works of the painter-priest Shubun, such as Chikusai Tokusho, display a style perhaps influenced by Korean landscape painting.

Shubun's most well-known painting, designated as a National Treasure in Japan, is Reading in a Bamboo Grove, now kept in the Tokyo National Museum.

In the 1440s, he teaches the young Sesshu Toyo, who becomes his best pupil and the most highly regarded Japanese artist of his time.

Another important pupil may have been Kano Masanobu, who will succeed Shubun as the chief painter of the Ashikaga shogunate, and will also found the Kano school of painting.