竹林七聖図, Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, Sesson Shūkei, 1550s

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竹林七聖図, Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, Muromachi period (1392–1573), 1550s, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 40 5/16 × 20 3/8 in. ( × cm), Paintings, Sesson Shūkei (ca. 1504–ca. 1589), During the turbulent years of the beginning of the Western Jin dynasty (265–317), a group of seven literati secluded themselves in a bamboo grove outside the capital. They drank wine, engaged in a witty, “pure” Daoist discourse called qingtan, and, judging from this exuberant portrayal by Sesson Shūkei, played music and sang and danced wildly in the company of equally ebullient women and children

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