Calligraphy Rubbings and the Model-letters Tradition
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Celebratory Poem in semicursive script, By Liu Yong, Qing dynasty, dated 1796
Asian Gallery (Toyokan) Room 8
March 3, 2009 (Tue) - April 26, 2009 (Sun)>> detailed information
This exhibition, held in complement with the current exhibition at The Taito City Museum of Calligraphy under the same theme, features both imperial and private editions of various fatie or, or rubbings and prists of calligraphy made into books as well as calligraphy by Qing dynasty masters who learned from fatie.
Exhibit Includes:
Rubbing of Copybook "Qunyutang Mitie", Original calligraphy by Mi Fu, Northern Song dynasty, 11th century; Rubbing impression made in the Song dynasty (Gift of Mr. Takashima Kikujiro)
Rubbing from "Shqitie", Tang dynasty
Wrinting after Old Copybooks, By Liu Yong, Qing dynasty, 18th century (Gift of Mr. Takashima Kikujiro)
Writing after the Copybook of Mi Fu, By Wang Shu, Qing dynasty, 17th - 18th century (Gift of Mr. Aoyama San'u)
Celebratory Poem in semicursive script, By Liu Yong, Qing dynasty, dated 1796