Jeong Sop

A Chinese calligrapher and painter in the mid-Qing dynasty. Born in Xinghua, Jiangsu Province. His courtesy name was Kerou and his pen name was Banqiao. He was a scholar in 1736 (the first year of the Qianlong era). He entered Hanlin and was honored as the governor of Fan County in Shandong Province and then Tongwei County, but he was born enjoying poetry and drinking and was not suited to being a government official, so he resigned from his position, claiming to be ill, returned to his hometown and never served again. He was a refined and elegant man who excelled in poetry, calligraphy and painting, and is counted, along with Jin Nong and Huang Shen, as one of the so-called "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou" as a distinctive literary figure of the Qianlong period. He was skilled in calligraphy in the ancient style of calligraphy, incorporating the structure of seal and clerical calligraphy into his regular style, establishing his own unique style. He also excelled in ink and bamboo painting, and his poetry was said to be close to that of Lu You of the Southern Song Dynasty. He is the author of the "Itabashi Complete Works."

[Hiroshi Kakui]

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中国、清(しん)代中期の書画家。江蘇(こうそ)省興化の人。字(あざな)は克柔、号は板橋。1736年（乾隆1）の進士。翰林(かんりん)に入り、山東省范(はん)県知事、同濰(い)県知事となり声誉があったが、生来、詩酒を楽しんで官吏には適さず、病と称して官を辞し、郷里に帰りふたたび仕えなかった。ひととなり洒脱(しゃだつ)にして詩書画三絶、乾隆(けんりゅう)期の特色ある文人として金農(きんのう)、黄慎(こうしん)らとともにいわゆる「揚州八怪(ようしゅうはっかい)」の一人に数えられる。書は古籀(こちゅう)狂草をよくし、行楷(ぎょうかい)に篆隷(てんれい)の結構をそのまま取り入れ、独自の風を確立した。また墨竹画に優れ、詩は南宋(なんそう)の陸游(りくゆう)に近いと称せられた。著に『板橋全集』がある。

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