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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 (zhai in pin-yin) which means studio or retreat.

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.

The Times Literary Supplement, January 22, 2010

Review by Olivier Burckhardt of The Selected Poetry of Guido Cavalcanti: A Critical English Edition edited by Simon West (Troubador Italian Studies, 2009)
as it appeared in the TLS, 22 January 2010, p.24

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