Wu Shuang Pu
Wu Shuang Pu (Chinese: 無雙譜; lit. 'Table of Peerless Heroes') is a book of woodcut prints, first printed in 1694. This book contains the biographies and imagined portraits of 40 notable heroes and heroines from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, all accompanied by a brief introduction and guided by a related poem in yuefu style. The illustrations from the book were widely distributed and re-used, often as motifs on Chinese porcelain but also used for creating paintings and statues.
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Depictions of the heroes and poems of Wu Shuang Pu[edit]
Porcelain depicted with the heroes and poems of Wu Shuang Pu[edit]
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Ban Zhao: She was the wife of Cao Shishu. She finished the book of the royal family that her father and brother has started. She served the royal family as a teacher.
Paintings depicted with the heroes of Wu Shuang Pu[edit]
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Su Wu Tending Sheep by Huang Shen
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Portrait of Su Wu by Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841), Edo period, dated 1839 (Tenpo 10), light colour on silk - Tokyo National Museum - DSC06123
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Zhang Qian by Maejima Sōyū, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession number 2002.3
Statues showing the heroes of Wu Shuang Pu[edit]
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Su Wu at the Hong Kong Museum of Art
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Yue Fei at the Yue Fei Temple in Hangzhou, China
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Tao Yuanming in his hometown Jiujiang
- Art of China
- National heroes
- Statues showing the heroes of Wu Shuang Pu
- Porcelain depicted with the heroes of Wu Shuang Pu
- Paintings depicted with the heroes of Wu Shuang Pu
- Chinese book illustrations
- Chinese book illustrations (pre-photographic)
- Books of art of China
- Books from China
- Bibliography books
- Woodcut illustrations
- 17th-century books
- 17th century books from China
- 17th-century prints
- 1694 books
- Chinese poems
- Wu Shuang Pu