untitled

Yi Fujiu, calligrapher

1698–after 1747

Li Bai, artist

701–762

untitled, early 1700s, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)

Where object was made: China

Material/technique: ink; silk

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 97.3 x 43.3 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 38 5/16 x 17 1/16 in
Mount Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 191.8 x 57.2 cm
Mount Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 75 1/2 x 22 1/2 in

Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Hutchinson

Accession number: 1983.0092

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Exhibition Label: “From the Way of Writing to the Weight of Writing," Jun-2007, Ai-lian Liu "All the birds fly high and disappear in the distance. The solitary cloud stays and saunters in his leisure. Never tired of looking at each other, He and the Jingting Mountain." -Li Bai (701-762), Solitary Retreat in the Jingting Mountain Yi Fujiu was a Chinese merchant who made a series of journeys to Nagasaki, Japan, between 1720 and 1747. While Japanese contact with the mainland was otherwise restricted during the Edo period (1600-1868), Chinese merchants and monks became envoys of Chinese culture in Japan. Although not a major artist of his time, Yi Fujiu’s landscape painting preserved the earlier Yuan (1279-1368) tradition, and was highly regarded by Japanese Nanga painters as representative of the orthodox literati tradition. Subsequently, his calligraphy has also been treasured by Japanese intellectuals.