Prints
Calligraphy
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Translation of calligraphy:
Ethereal and illusory, it hides itself within its raggedness.
I knocked it quickly; it uttered not the sound of a clanging bell.
I’d like to call on you, my man, to look for where you came from;
But, for a couple of times, I located the wrong mountain peaks.
Qian Tingxuan
The Ten Bamboo Studio Manual presents appealing compositions and calligraphy that guide the reader in aesthetic appreciation. The contents all relate to the garden, depicting and celebrating flora, birds, and garden rocks. The pages shown here are from the rock section of the manual. They highlight certain desirable rocks, in image and verse, that would have been collected by the educated elite of the time.
Ethereal and illusory, it hides itself within its raggedness.
I knocked it quickly; it uttered not the sound of a clanging bell.
I’d like to call on you, my man, to look for where you came from;
But, for a couple of times, I located the wrong mountain peaks.
Qian Tingxuan
The Ten Bamboo Studio Manual presents appealing compositions and calligraphy that guide the reader in aesthetic appreciation. The contents all relate to the garden, depicting and celebrating flora, birds, and garden rocks. The pages shown here are from the rock section of the manual. They highlight certain desirable rocks, in image and verse, that would have been collected by the educated elite of the time.