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Subject:What does this Chinese fan say?
Posted By: I.Nagy Sat, Sep 26, 2020
The inscription is a seventeen character per line poem, here composed of two phases of 272 characters
(instead of 276 characters - 4 characters short)
This type of poetry was popular during the Ming Dynasty.
There is no title.The content is fundamentally lamentation on the bitter life of a the high official of the defeated Chu state.
Colophon,
王畿壬寅 - Wang Ji in Summer of the Year of Water-Tiger (1542)
(Wang Ji 1498-1583 philosopher, writer and poet in the Ming Dynasty - Presumably, the above poem was written by him in 1542)
崧甫賢宅相稚之属 －With homage to my nephew Song Fuxian
謙吉 呉衍祥 - By the propitious Wu Yanxian
(Name of calligrapher)
With regards,
I.Nagy
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- Mai - Sep 22, 2020 (01:56 PM) 