A Study on the Poetic Inscriptions on Wang Meng's Liuqiao Yuchang Picture-Scroll in a Japanese Collection:The Discovery and Identification of Yang Weizhen's Earliest Surviving Calligraphic Work
A Study on the Poetic Inscriptions on Wang Meng's Liuqiao Yuchang Picture-Scroll in a Japanese Collection:The Discovery and Identification of Yang Weizhen's Earliest Surviving Calligraphic Work
At the end of Wang Meng's Liuqiao Yuchang Picture-Scroll,in the collection of the Kyoto National Museum,the poems of eight masters of the Yuan dynasty,including Yuwen Gongliang,Yang Weizhen,Han Xing and Wang Mian,are inscribed.The scroll is a forgery and so was kept in storage for a long time.However,the inscriptions have been verified as authentic and the poems by Yang Weizhen and Wang Mian are of great significance.The inscriptions'content,style of writing and seals are unquestionable,proving that these poems are Yang Weizhen and Wang Main's earliest surviving calligraphic works.The discovery of this scroll extends the link between the calligraphic styles of Yang and Wang,revealing the features of their early calligraphy and also proving that the former's calligraphy was deeply influenced by Zhao Mengfu.