Tao Yüan-ming / Nakabayashi Chikkei
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- Accession Number
- 1982/1.197
- Title
- Tao Yüan-ming
- Artist
- Nakabayashi Chikkei
- Artist Nationality
- Japanese
- Artist Life Dates
- 1816-1867
- Medium and Support
- ink and color on silk
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1840 - 1867
- Object Creation Place
- Asia (continent)
- Japan (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Asia (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Japan (nation)
- Style/Group/Movement
- literati
- Dimensions
- 121.7 cm x 57 cm (47 15/16 in. x 22 7/16 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Painting
- Primary Object Type
- hanging scroll
- Secondary Object Classification
- Painting
- Secondary Object Type
- figure painting
- Physical Description
- In the lower third of the hanging scroll are three figures. Tao Yuanming is the larger figure on the right with his two attendants on the left. They are divided by a table. In the background is a screen which separates the figures from the landscape.
- Subject Matter
- The subject of this painting is the Chinese poet Tao Yuanming, famous for pastoral poems about nature and agrarian life. Though a qualified scholar-official, he rejected the rewards and obligations of a government position, preferring to devote himself to pastoral pursuits. Tao Yuanming’s renunciation of money and power and love of nature became the archetypal values for Chinese intellectuals and artists. In this painting he is attended by two pupils, one holding a tray with an ink stone, water, and brush, and the other holding a bundle of blank scrolls for the inscription of poems. Beside him is a guqin, a seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family favored by scholars and literati.
- Primary Keywords
- bamboo
- chairs
- children (people by age group)
- figures (illustrations)
- gardens
- hanging scrolls
- japan (nation)
- portraits
- rock
- rocks
- Secondary Keywords
- layout features
- asia (continent)
- buildings and the land
- components
- components and systems
- components by specific context
- descriptors
- furnishings
- furnishings by form or function
- furniture
- furniture by form or function
- geographic and political locations
- grass (plant material)
- illustrations
- illustrations by form
- images and ornament
- information form components
- inorganic material
- layout features
- materials
- materials by composition
- materials by origin
- objects we use
- open spaces
- open spaces and site elements
- open spaces by form
- paintings
- paintings by form
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by age group
- plant material
- scroll paintings
- seating furniture
- single seating furniture
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- visual works by subject type
- youth
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- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 987 x 1485
- File Size
- 138 KB
- Record
- 1982/1.197
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1982-sl-1.197/1982_1.197.jpg
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"Tao Yüan-ming; Nakabayashi Chikkei." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1982-sl-1.197/1982_1.197.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 14, 2024.