Liu Kezhuang's Remarks on Antique Calligraphic Works and Paintings : In Relation with his View on Literary Creation

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  • Higashi Hidetoshi
    Division of Culture and Representation, Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University

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  • 劉克荘の鑑定眼 : その詩文創作観との関連
  • リュウコクソウ ノ カンテイガン : ソノ シブン ソウサクカン ト ノ カンレン

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Regarding Liu Kezhuang (劉克荘) who was a prominent bureaucrat and literati in the late Southern Song period, various researches have so far been done mostly focusing on his poetry. In my research, I pay special attention to his remarks about his antique collections, and explore the relationship between those remarks and his view on literary creation. Reading his numerous remarks on antiquities, Liu Kezhuang turns out to be a collector and an appraiser of calligraphic works and paintings, and to use the notion of "qipo" (mettle, 気魄) and "liliang" (power, 力量) frequently when he writes his opinion on the antique works. Interestingly, he also employs exactly the same words and notion in his literary criticism. That is to say, even though we are engaged in research on his poetry and prose, his remarks on antique calligraphic works and paintings still have an important implication.

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  • 比較社会文化

    比較社会文化 20 53-59, 2014-03-25

    Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University

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