[Cranes and Geese]
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Narrado por Jorge Obregón
Narrado por Jorge Obregón
Ichikawa Beian is regarded as one of the three great calligraphers of early 19th-century Japan. A Confucian scholar born in Edo (modern-day Tokyo), he traveled as a young man to Nagasaki to study calligraphy under the Chinese master Hu Zhaoxin 胡兆新, and later founded his own school. He also served as advisor across various domains in Japan.
This is a fragment from the poem Gratitude to Master Xu Lian for the Gift of Books 謝許鍊師惠圖書, written by the Chinese scholar Wei Jin 危進 (1303–1372) of the Ming dynasty 明. The poem offers an idealized portrayal of the Xu family’s life on Mount Mao 茅山—a vision of harmony with nature in the pursuit of spiritual cultivation.
In the specific excerpt rendered in Beian’s cursive calligraphy, we see some of the utopian and paradisiacal imagery that the poem evokes.
Ichikawa Beian is regarded as one of the three great calligraphers of early 19th-century Japan. A Confucian scholar born in Edo (modern-day Tokyo), he traveled as a young man to Nagasaki to study calligraphy under the Chinese master Hu Zhaoxin 胡兆新, and later founded his own school. He also served as advisor across various domains in Japan.
This is a fragment from the poem Gratitude to Master Xu Lian for the Gift of Books 謝許鍊師惠圖書, written by the Chinese scholar Wei Jin 危進 (1303–1372) of the Ming dynasty 明. The poem offers an idealized portrayal of the Xu family’s life on Mount Mao 茅山—a vision of harmony with nature in the pursuit of spiritual cultivation.
In the specific excerpt rendered in Beian’s cursive calligraphy, we see some of the utopian and paradisiacal imagery that the poem evokes.
Ichikawa Beian is regarded as one of the three great calligraphers of early 19th-century Japan. A Confucian scholar born in Edo (modern-day Tokyo), he traveled as a young man to Nagasaki to study calligraphy under the Chinese master Hu Zhaoxin 胡兆新, and later founded his own school. He also served as advisor across various domains in Japan.
This is a fragment from the poem Gratitude to Master Xu Lian for the Gift of Books 謝許鍊師惠圖書, written by the Chinese scholar Wei Jin 危進 (1303–1372) of the Ming dynasty 明. The poem offers an idealized portrayal of the Xu family’s life on Mount Mao 茅山—a vision of harmony with nature in the pursuit of spiritual cultivation.
In the specific excerpt rendered in Beian’s cursive calligraphy, we see some of the utopian and paradisiacal imagery that the poem evokes.