Tao Yüan-ming / Nakabayashi Chikkei

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Accession Number
1982/1.197
Title
Tao Yüan-ming
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.
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1982/1.197
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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 March 19, 2024.
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