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