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Calligraphy in Semi-Cursive Style (xing-caoshu)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Yueshan Daozong
Title
Calligraphy in Semi-Cursive Style (xing-caoshu)
Description
This spontaneous, bold calligraphy style is characteristic of members of the Japanese Obaku sect of Chan Buddhism (Huangbo in Chinese), which was introduced to Japan by Chinese monks in the 1600s. The monk Yueshan immigrated to Japan from the Chinese province of Fujian, taking a priestly post at Mampukuji, the headquarters of the Obaku sect in Japan. He later became the seventh abbot of the distinguished temple.

Yueshan’s calligraphy features rounded characters that allow him to fuse strokes and characters in speedy brush movements. Here the text begins with the large character chu (“the beginning”), the initial focus of meditation on the text: The dragon murmurs after sunset. The tiger roars before dawn.
Date 1640
date QS:P571,+1640-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Handscroll; ink on paper
Dimensions Image: 28.6 x 64.1 cm (11 1/4 x 25 1/4 in.); Overall with knobs: 115.6 x 73.8 cm (45 1/2 x 29 1/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
Chinese Art
Accession number
2003.353
Place of creation China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Credit line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Gow
Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.353

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