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The calligraphy on the banner, adapted from a Chinese ink rubbing, is by Mi Fu (1051-1107), one of the great Song dynasty masters. The two characters read fu floating & chai which means studio or retreat.
Hence: Floating Studio.
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Pencilled Lines on Poetry:
Notes from a loose-leaf pad
on
Poetry, Poetics, East-West, Chinese Calligraphy, etc
This ongoing web based section will be updated regularly and comments will added to the entries. Wherever possible full bibliographical details of any quotes are given below each entry.
Entries will either be included as an image or typed.
If you have any queries or comment, don’t hesitate to contact the author via email
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Montaigne: from the opening note "Au Lecteur" of the 1580 edition of his Essais.
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The Chinese seal reads “yue ri” talk to the sun, but could also be read as "the sun spoke/said"
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Hay, Jonathan (2001) Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
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Mair, Victor (Ed.) (1994) The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature, New York, Columbia University Press.
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 zuoyi  has several interrelated meanings, primarily it means the plan or scheme of an essay, but the 12 vol. Chinese dictionary Hanyu Dacidian (Ed. Luo, Zhufeng, Shanghai 1986-94) gives the following definitions for this compound word:
to concentrate hard or take special care; to pay attention or take note; conceive an idea or make up one's mind; write or compose an original idea or one’s true intention.
Literally it is composed of “make” and “idea”. Poetry as thought & thought as poetry, which is the central theme of the essay Voicing Thought, is encompassed in the square inch of this seal, which is reflected within that other classical Chinese image of the square inch within the breast, the heart/mind of which yi is the sound.
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Yi jian – simple & easy – forthcoming...
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