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Years of birth and death unknown. A Chinese painter active in the late 13th century, beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. His pen name was Shunju. His pen names included Yutan, Xunfeng, Xiulanwong, and Chuanwong. He was from Wuxing (Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province) and was a local tribute officer (a person who qualified to take the imperial examination) during the Jingding period (1260-1264) of the Southern Song Dynasty. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, he was counted as one of the eight outstanding men of Wuxing along with Zhao Mengfu (Ziang) and others, and Ziang and others served the Yuan Dynasty, but Qian Xuan did not enter the government, instead devoting his life to poetry, calligraphy, and painting as a scholar. He specialized in landscapes, people, and birds and flowers, and is said to have studied people under Li Gonglin, landscapes under Zhao Lingrong, blue-green landscapes under Zhao Boju, and birds and flowers under Zhao Chang. All of them looked to Northern Song painters as models, and aimed to restore the style of Yuan painting. Together with Gao Kegong and others, he was part of the restoration movement of painting that was carried out in the early Yuan Dynasty by literati and scholar-official painters, including Zhao Zigong. His works include "Scroll of Snakes at the Orchid Pavilion" (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), and his style is realistic and emphasizes beautiful coloring. Many small pieces were introduced to Japan, and it is said that his paintings of broken branches of flowers are particularly distinctive, but there are few definite examples.

[Shinya Hoshiyama]

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生没年不詳。中国、13世紀後半の元(げん)初に活躍した画家。字(あざな)は舜挙(しゅんきょ)。号は玉潭(ぎょくたん)、巽峯(そんぽう)、習嬾(しゅうらん)翁、川(とうせん)翁など。呉興（浙江(せっこう)省湖州市）の人で、南宋(なんそう)の景定年間（1260～1264）の郷貢進士（科挙に応ずる資格を得た者）。元初に趙孟頫(ちょうもうふ)（子昂(すごう)）らとともに呉興の八俊の一人に数えられ、子昂らは元朝に仕えたが、銭選は仕官せず、生涯を詩書画に打ち込んで処士で一生を送った。山水、人物、花鳥を得意とし、人物画は李公麟(りこうりん)、山水は趙令穣(ちょうれいじょう)、青緑山水は趙伯駒(はっく)、花鳥は趙昌(ちょうしょう)を学んだという。いずれも北宋(そう)の画家に範を求め、院体画風の復古を目ざし、趙子昂をはじめ文人、士大夫画家によって元初に行われた絵画の復古運動の一環を、高克恭(こうこくきょう)らとともに担った。作品に『蘭亭観鵝(らんていかんが)図巻』（ニューヨーク、メトロポリタン美術館）などがあげられ、その画風は写実的で着色の美しさを旨とし、日本にも多くの小品が伝わり、とくに花卉(かき)の折枝画(せつしが)に特徴があるとするが、確かなものは少ない。

［星山晋也］

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