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Celebrating the Legacy of Yinyuan Longqi (Ingen Ryuki) and the Art of Ōbaku

Celebrating the Legacy of Yinyuan Longqi (Ingen Ryuki) and the Art of Ōbaku

HANDSCROLL WITH SIX POEMS PRAISING PLANTS by Duli Xingyi (Jp. Dokuryū Shōeki)

Handscroll with six poems praising plants
Duli Xingyi 独立性易 (Jp. Dokuryū Shōeki, 1596-1672)
Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
Handscroll, ink on paper
29.5 cm x 539.5 cm
Collection of Harald Conrad

題五色牡丹圖
光風獨佔滿堂春
夭矯輕拈五色塵
寫生筆底何振振
丹青地潑花間茵
枝交葉接華無限
歡如三之潛溪新
玉樓春早迎曦晨
紅若珠葉笑勻勻
檀心倒畢含氣頻
鹿眼未剖香懷娠
予先百五君逾辰
壽裡宮曉香散鄰
左花重襲平須親
直教百卉每伏臣
雕欄廣座光嘉賓
眼前富貴儔有倫
幕天席地歡同陳
姚黃魏紫奚足珍
花間儋宴行廚郇
十千傾倒山中醇
華兮花兮會有神
披圖不覺歌逡巡

櫻桃
誰琢珊瑚粒
顆顆光燦赤
豔奪火齊丸
星聯而珠碩
懸之碧枝梢
散作含桃魄
春風滿上林
幽鳥爭相惜
啁啁囀白頭
翩翩出振翮
不自就含殘
已經度佳夕
筠籠賜近臣
寵與曾誇昔

楊枝小鳥
楊白花,渡江去
因風莫可留住
生憎眼底老長楊
輕條寫出垂垂幕
竊黃有鳥在枝頭
宛如楊伴兒歸處
愁只空江露漸稀
飄飄葉落隨風飛

芙蓉花鳥
木末芙蓉,花向秋江老
雲露不知寒
經霜奈其早
采葉集為裳
採花色映縞
野鳥解多歡
枝頭獨相抱
叱叱鳴不歇
自不著煩惱
誰憐照水中
瘦影出顛倒

葡萄圖
丸丸珍墮秋風裡
筆啟爭懸滿架心
半面多情分馬乳
盤饗空自愜知音

題柳燕
東風影裏春情老
正是家成柳絮時
好向半梢嗟得去
一番補盡舊巢兒

右題畫屏六首
香餘坐罷自思
戒書日久喜當情快
遂為握管一錄
天閑野衲獨立

In cursive script, Duli brushes one poem each in praise of the following plants:
peony, cherry, willow rod, marshmallow, grape, and willow. In his clerical script
postscript he relates how paintings inspired his compositions.

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