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The "Admonitions Scroll" is one of the earliest surviving examples of Chinese painting. Attributed to [[Gu Kaizhi]] (c.[[344]]-c.[[407]]), with inscriptions attributed to [[Zhang Hua]] ([[232]]-[[300]]), the scroll depicts a series of scenes meant to instruct the viewer in correct moral behavior.
One of the scenes shows Lady Feng, a consort of [[Emperor Yuan of Han]] (r. 48-33 BCE), defending the emperor from a bear. Another scene shows [[Lady Ban]], a consort to [[Emperor Cheng of Han]], who famously refused to ride in the imperial palanquin, insisting that the emperor be surrounded instead by his ministers.
It was acquired by the [[British Museum]] in [[1903]] and remains in the museum's collection today. Woodblock print artist [[Urushibara Mokuchu|Urushibara Mokuchû]] produced woodblock print copies of the scroll in the 1910s, and ''[[Nihonga]]'' artists Kobayashi Kokei and Maeda Seison also studied and copied the scroll during a visit to London in 1922.
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==References==
*Gallery labels, British Museum.
*Conrad Schirokauer, et al, ''A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations'', Fourth Edition, Cengage Learning (2012), 95.
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[[Category:Yayoi Period]]
The "Admonitions Scroll" is one of the earliest surviving examples of Chinese painting. Attributed to [[Gu Kaizhi]] (c.[[344]]-c.[[407]]), with inscriptions attributed to [[Zhang Hua]] ([[232]]-[[300]]), the scroll depicts a series of scenes meant to instruct the viewer in correct moral behavior.
One of the scenes shows Lady Feng, a consort of [[Emperor Yuan of Han]] (r. 48-33 BCE), defending the emperor from a bear. Another scene shows [[Lady Ban]], a consort to [[Emperor Cheng of Han]], who famously refused to ride in the imperial palanquin, insisting that the emperor be surrounded instead by his ministers.
It was acquired by the [[British Museum]] in [[1903]] and remains in the museum's collection today. Woodblock print artist [[Urushibara Mokuchu|Urushibara Mokuchû]] produced woodblock print copies of the scroll in the 1910s, and ''[[Nihonga]]'' artists Kobayashi Kokei and Maeda Seison also studied and copied the scroll during a visit to London in 1922.
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==References==
*Gallery labels, British Museum.
*Conrad Schirokauer, et al, ''A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese Civilizations'', Fourth Edition, Cengage Learning (2012), 95.
[[Category:Historical Documents]]
[[Category:Yayoi Period]]