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Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1982.","citation":"Suzuki, Kei, comp.<i> Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku</i>, vol. 1 of <i>Amerika-Kanada hen</i>. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1982., pl. A17–095","date":1982,"id":8082,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/638830092"},{"boilertext":"<p>\"The checklist of the John B. Elliott Bequest,\" <em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum </em>61 (2002): p. 49-99.</p>","citation":"<p>\"The checklist of the John B. Elliott Bequest,\" <em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum </em>61 (2002): p. 49-99.</p>, p. 77","date":2002,"id":3025,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774767"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[{"id":12562,"period":"Ming dynasty","alphasort":"Ming dynasty","begindate":1368,"enddate":1644,"displayperiod":"Ming dynasty, 1368–1644","displaydate":"1368–1644"}],"department":"Asian Art","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199319,"term":"Asian Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199327,"term":"Prints and Drawings","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"A.D. 1500-1600","dateend":1559,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"Poem on Lake Taiye","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":"","objectnumber":"1998-98","inscribed":"undated","texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"&nbsp;–1998&nbsp;John B. Elliott (Princeton, NJ), by bequest to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1998. <br>","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Multivocal Label","textentryhtml":"<p>\n\tIn this work, Wen Zhengming has written the characters with firm, determined brushstrokes in the semicursive, or running script. Both the poem’s calligraphic style and its literary form pay homage to the Song dynasty poet–artist Huang Tingjian (1045–1105), whose <i>Scroll for Zhang Datong</i> is also shown in this gallery.\n</p>\n<p>\n\tWen wrote this poem in the spring of 1525, during a visit he made with friends to view Lake Taiye in the imperial  Western Garden in Beijing. The verses evoke the magical aura of the lake and refer to Daoist paradises where immortals dwell.\n</p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"><p>\n\tThe water’s expanse, the vast pond merging with heaven;\n\t<br />\n\tTen li of lotus, a smooth embroidered cloud.\n\t<br />\n\tI have heard that Yuefu caused the yellow crane to sing\n\t<br />\n\tAnd seen the Qiufeng move a stone whale to swim. The curved jade rainbow descends across the blue sky;\n\t<br />\n\tThe silver mountains rise from the world through the mist.\n\t<br />\n\tFollowing those places where the phoenix chariot passed,\n\t<br />\n\tThe wild geese wheel round the air, never startled.\n</p></blockquote>\n<p>\n\t<br /><b>\n\tTranslated by Ling-yün Shih Liu\n</b></p>","remarks":"ASIA2_15_WLA Day 1 Cataloguing"}],"datebegin":1490,"sortnumber":"1998   98","published_date":"2026-02-11 10:49:03.151937","objectid":36394,"dimensions":"Calligraphy: 343.9 × 96.5 cm (135 3/8 × 38 in.)\r\nmount: 409 × 122.9 cm (161 × 48 3/8 in.)\r\nwith knobs: 135.5 cm (53 3/8 in.)","on_view":true}