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品名（中）	竹林七贤
品名（英）	Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
入馆年号	2015年，2015.300.50
策展部门	亚洲艺术（Asian Art）
创作者	Sesson Shūkei【1504 至 1589】【日本人】
创作年份	公元 1550 - 公元 1559
创作地区
分类	绘画（Paintings）
尺寸	图像: 40 5/16 × 20 3/8 英寸 (102.4 × 51.7 厘米) 整体 with mounting: 79 3/4 × 26 7/16 英寸 (202.5 × 67.2 厘米) 整体 with knobs: 79 3/4 × 28 9/16 英寸 (202.5 × 72.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	在西晋初年（265–317）动荡的中国，七位文人隐居在首都郊外的一片竹林中。在那里，他们摆脱了官场和儒家行为的束缚，喝酒，进行诙谐的道教清谈，演奏音乐和下棋。他们的故事成为传说，并成为中国乃至日本经常出现的绘画主题。在塞松异常热情的演绎中，圣贤们在同样热情的妇女和儿童的陪伴下疯狂地跳舞。就连竹子似乎也随着圣贤的鼓点摇摆尽管这种对传统图像学的背离导致偶尔将森描述为"古怪"，但他也是一位禅宗僧侣和受过教育的画家，研究了大量早期的中国和日本绘画。这件作品可以追溯到1550年代，当时他住在旧行政首都镰仓附近。
介绍（英）	In China during the turbulent years of the early Western Jin dynasty (265–317), seven literati secluded themselves in a bamboo grove outside the capital. There they escaped from the strictures of officialdom and Confucian conduct, drinking wine, engaging in witty Daoist discourse called qingtan, and playing music and chess. Their story became legend and the frequent subject of painting in China, and eventually Japan. In this unusually exuberant interpretation by Sesson, the sages dance wildly in the company of equally ebullient women and children. Even the bamboo seems to sway to the sages’ drumbeat. Although this type of departure from traditional iconography led to the occasional characterization of Sesson as “eccentric,” he was also a Zen monk and educated painter who studied a wide array of earlier Chinese and Japanese paintings. This work can be dated to the 1550s, when he lived near Kamakura, the old administrative capital.