in 1486 sesshū came back to yamaguchi. many of his extant works date from the last years of his life, including "long landscape scroll" ("sansui chōkan", 1486), "splashed-ink landscape" (破墨山水 "haboku sansui") (1495), and others. one such work, "view of ama-no-hashidate" (c. 1501–05), is a bird's eye view of a famous sandbar in tango province. to paint it, the artist, who was already well into his eighties, had to climb a tall mountain, so evidently he was still in good health. in 1506, he died, aged 87. a single self-portrait of sesshū is known through a later copy made by a follower.