Poem of old San’yō for a painting 山陽翁題画詩其蹟
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Narrado por Jorge Obregón
Narrado por Jorge Obregón
With a masterful and mature brushstroke, this flowing cursive script by Rai San’yō presents a Chinese poem that describes an autumn landscape deep in the mountains, in an exercise that evokes the composition of a painting.
Considered one of the most prominent Confucian scholars of the 19th century, San’yō also excelled as a poet in Chinese language, as well as a calligrapher and painter. At the age of thirty he moved to Kyoto, where he founded a school dedicated to the study of Chinese classics. His most influential work was Nihon gaishi 日本外史, a revisionist history of Japan that was widely read during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Leading intellectuals, writers, and artists of the time gathered around him, and today his works continue to be highly valued in collections around the world.
In this piece, he signs as the “Scholar of the Thirty-Six Peaks,” alluding to his appreciation for the Higashiyama 東山 mountains in Kyoto, where he lived.
With a masterful and mature brushstroke, this flowing cursive script by Rai San’yō presents a Chinese poem that describes an autumn landscape deep in the mountains, in an exercise that evokes the composition of a painting.
Considered one of the most prominent Confucian scholars of the 19th century, San’yō also excelled as a poet in Chinese language, as well as a calligrapher and painter. At the age of thirty he moved to Kyoto, where he founded a school dedicated to the study of Chinese classics. His most influential work was Nihon gaishi 日本外史, a revisionist history of Japan that was widely read during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Leading intellectuals, writers, and artists of the time gathered around him, and today his works continue to be highly valued in collections around the world.
In this piece, he signs as the “Scholar of the Thirty-Six Peaks,” alluding to his appreciation for the Higashiyama 東山 mountains in Kyoto, where he lived.
With a masterful and mature brushstroke, this flowing cursive script by Rai San’yō presents a Chinese poem that describes an autumn landscape deep in the mountains, in an exercise that evokes the composition of a painting.
Considered one of the most prominent Confucian scholars of the 19th century, San’yō also excelled as a poet in Chinese language, as well as a calligrapher and painter. At the age of thirty he moved to Kyoto, where he founded a school dedicated to the study of Chinese classics. His most influential work was Nihon gaishi 日本外史, a revisionist history of Japan that was widely read during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Leading intellectuals, writers, and artists of the time gathered around him, and today his works continue to be highly valued in collections around the world.
In this piece, he signs as the “Scholar of the Thirty-Six Peaks,” alluding to his appreciation for the Higashiyama 東山 mountains in Kyoto, where he lived.