Ch: zhelumiao. Lit. "bent-reed drawing." An ink-painting technique that employs brush strokes with pronounced beginnings and sharp twists. Bending but not breaking, these strokes resemble twisted reeds. The setsurobyō style is frequently seen in Chan 禅 (Jp: Zen) figure paintings *dōshakuga 道釈画 of the Southern Song dynasty. Liang Kai (Jp: Ryō Kai 梁楷; fl. late 12th-13th century), a prominent artist who became known for his use of the setsurobyō manner was a member of the Southern Song painting academy and retired from official service to spend the last years of his life in Chan monasteries. Ming artists of the Zhe School 浙派 (Jp: Seppa) also favored the bent-reed style of painting. In Japan, the Kano school *Kano-ha 狩野派 adapted setsurobyō, one of the eighteen types of figural portrayal *jinbutsu jūhachibyō 人物十八描.