Summer Yellow Prince

...This refers to a painting depicting four old men who retired to Shangshan (Shang County, Shaanxi Province) to escape the chaos of the late Qin Dynasty in China. The Four Haos were Duke of Dongyuan, Duke of Xiahuang, Master Rokuri, and Kiriji, and were so named because they all had white beards and eyebrows. They were taken up as the subject of ink-wash portraits, and many works on them were produced in Japan, which was influenced by China, from the Muromachi period to the Edo period....

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Xiahuang Gong" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…中国，秦末に商山(陝西省商県)に乱を避けて隠居した4人の老人を画題とする絵画をいう。四皓とは東園公，夏黄公，甪里（ろくり）先生，綺里季の4人で，鬚眉がみな白かったのでこのように呼ばれた。水墨人物画の主題としてとりあげられ，中国の影響を受けた日本では室町時代から江戸時代にかけて，多くの作品が制作された。…

※「夏黄公」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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