Seven-character Quatrain, "Tao Yuanming Getting a Drink with His Headscarf"

The six works, “Tao Yuanming Getting a Drink with His Headscarf”, “Li Mi Rides an Ox, Using the Horns for His Bookstand”, “Swallows on A Willow Tree”, “Pigeons in Sun and Snow”, “Fei Zhangfang’s Stick Becomes a Dragon”, and “Sakugen Shūryō’s Seven-character Quatrain (subject unknown)” are all by Sakugen Shūryō.

Five of them are included in the “Sakugen Oshō Shishū” and are known to have been compliments attached to paintings with the title of the mark. The presence of traces of gold-ground mountings and the similar size of the papers suggest that these six works were originally attached to the top of the paintings as compliments for folding screens. In particular, four of them are included in the “Sakugen Oshō Shishū”, which suggests that they were Bokuseki (Calligraphy) that had some kind of meaning.