Wang Yang-ming: Poem in Ancient Meter
Ming Dynasty / hanging scroll / ink on paper
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Wang Yang-ming (1472 1528) was a native of Yu-yao, Chekiang province. His original name
was Shou-jen and his style name was Po-an, and he was known to the world as Yang-ming
hsien-sheng. He is famous as the founder of the Yang-ming-hsueh school of philosophy,
and is said to be a descendant of Wang Hsi-chih. He was well versed in the methods of
calligraphy and excelled in the semicursive script which was acclaimed to be incomparable
for its purity and strength. This piece, produced when he was forty-three, is an inscription
of a poem composed by himself. It is a consummate work with an atmosphere that transcends
worldliness.
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