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exposure to the art he had seen in China, A man under a pine tree, pointing part of China). In Shandong Zhuqi saw
by studying the earlier Chinese master- with his outstretched right arm, shouts at nothing but white rocks. Zhuqi went back
pieces that were already in Japan. This a pair of rocklike forms on the ground. to Shandong accompanied by Zhuping,
sketch is one of six original ink sketches The subject is Huang Zhuping, a legend- who, by shouting at rocks, turned thou-
extant today. It is signed Sesshü, to the left ary Daoist of the Han Dynasty, who is sands of them into sheep.
of a pine tree trunk. The name Liang Kai turning rocks into sheep. The story of the At the lower left of the painting is a
is brushed outside the frame at the lower sage is from an early Chinese collection of white sheep just transformed, and next to
right, indicating that the picture is a copy tales of eighty-four Daoist saints and sages it another with its legs emerging from a
based on a Chinese work, now lost, by (Shenxian zhuari), compiled by the Daoist dark rock. Dynamic brushstrokes define
Liang Kai (fl. c. 1195-^ 1224), an accom- scholar and alchemist Ge Hong (known the pine tree trunk, branches, terrain and,
plished painter of the conservative Chi- also as Bao Puzi), who was active 326-334 most expressively, Huang's costume. The
nese Imperial Academy of the Song AD. Huang Zhuping, at age fifteen, was kinesthetic quality of the brushstrokes in
dynasty and a highly expressive ink painter herding sheep when he met a Daoist mas- this work conveys something of both Ses-
as well. Six other related sketches are now ter who took him to Mount Jinhua in Zhe- shù's own artistic style and the spontane-
lost, but are known through seventeenth- jiang Province. After more than forty ity associated with Liang Kai's ink
century copies contained in a single years, Zhuping's older brother Zhuqi paintings. YS
handscroll by Kano Tsunenobu (1636- came looking for him, and asked where his
1713), now in the Tokyo National Museum. sheep were. Zhuping replied that they
were in Shandong Province (northeastern

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