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A Chinese style of bird-and-flower painting. This style of Chinese bird-and-flower painting was founded by the Southern Tang Dynasty painter Xu Xi (10th century) and his grandson Xu Chongsi. It is one of the two major styles of painting that rival the Huang style, and together they became typical of Chinese bird-and-flower painting from the end of the Northern Song Dynasty onwards, and played a major role in the development of bird-and-flower painting. While the Huang style, which is said to have originated from Huang Quan, is a realistic painting method using Gole coloring (precise outlines and dark colors), the Xu style is characterized by a mokkotsu method that does not use outlines and is mainly based on ink and color shading, and aims to express the essence of the subject by copying the gist of its form rather than depicting its external form. While the Huang style was mainly practiced in painting academies, the Xu style became favored by later literati painters.

[Shinya Hoshiyama]

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中国、花鳥画の画風。五代南唐(なんとう)（10世紀）の画家徐煕(じょき)とその孫徐崇嗣(じょすうし)を祖とする中国花鳥画様式で、黄氏体(こうしたい)と対立する二大画風の一つとして、ともに北宋(ほくそう)末以降の中国花鳥画の典型となり、花鳥画の流れを担った。黄筌(こうせん)に始まるとする黄氏体が勾勒(こうろく)賦彩（精密な輪郭線と濃彩）による写生的な描法であるのに対し、輪郭線を用いず墨や色の濃淡を主体とする没骨(もっこつ)法を特徴とし、対象の外形描写よりも、形態の大要を写して、その本質的なものの表現を目ざしており、黄氏体が主として画院で行われたのに対し、徐氏体は後の文人画家の好んでとるところとなった。

［星山晋也］

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