Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Shilian Dashan's Self Portraits (3/33)

Carrying Firewood 负薪图

"Shilian is portrayed one more time as a juvenile in the third print, Carrying Firewood." -- The Confucian's Progress, p. 201.

Update: My classmates helped me with the colophon (amazingly!)


苦其心志勞其筋骨___語奉負后捨上負薪圖於意嚴苛。(signature not readable) Seal: 四明 (look carefully, it's a funny glyph-play) Seal: 樞壽

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