Ink and bamboo painting

Japanese: 墨竹画 - ぼくちくが

This refers to ink-wash paintings of bamboo in Chinese and Japanese paintings. When Wen Tong (1018-79), a literati from the late Northern Song Dynasty, combined the style of cursive writing with the silhouette of bamboo, it acquired a new stylistic life, and his cousin Su Shi provided a theoretical basis for it, leading to a rapid popularity as a form of ink play among literati. After the creation of ink-wash bamboo, various themes such as ink plums, ink orchids, and ink chrysanthemums, known as ink flowers, began to be taken up, and this developed into ink-wash, floral, and miscellaneous painting, a genre that characterizes Chinese painting.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国，日本の絵画において水墨で描いた竹をいう。北宋代後半の文人，文同(1018‐79)が草書の法と竹のシルエットを結びつけたことから新しい様式的生命を獲得し，これに従弟の蘇軾（そしよく）が理論的根拠を与え，文人の墨戯として急速な流行をみるにいたった。墨竹の成立ののちにはいわゆる墨花と呼ばれる墨梅，墨蘭，墨菊等さまざまな主題が取り上げられるようになり，中国画を特色づける一ジャンルである水墨･花卉（かき）･雑画へと展開していく。

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