Gold inlaid sword

…These white ink paintings are deeply connected to calligraphy in that they utilize the function of the brush. There are also examples such as Li Yu, the last king of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who applied the calligraphy technique of "gold inlaid knife" to his ink bamboo (iron hook and chain), and the existence of this white ink bamboo shows that there was a new development in white ink paintings, which had previously been centered on Taoist and Buddhist figure paintings. The next master of white ink paintings after Wu Daoxuan was the scholar Li Gonglin of the late Northern Song Dynasty. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "kin-inara sword" is listed below.

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…これらの白描画は筆の機能を生かすという点で，書法と深く結びつく。南唐の最後の王李煜（りいく）のように，その書法〈金錯刀〉をその墨竹(鉄鉤鎖)に応用する例もあり，この白描的な墨竹の存在は道釈人物画中心であった白描画に新しい展開があったことを示している。呉道玄以後の白描画の大家は北宋末の文人李公麟である。…

※「金錯刀」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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