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Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom (Hardcover): Sung Po-Jen Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom (Hardcover)
Sung Po-Jen; Introduction by Lo Ch'ing; Translated by Red Pine
R1,284 R1,014 Discovery Miles 10 140 Save R270 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom (Paperback, 2nd Revised ed.): Sung Po-Jen Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom (Paperback, 2nd Revised ed.)
Sung Po-Jen; Introduction by Lo Ch'ing; Translated by Red Pine
R459 R389 Discovery Miles 3 890 Save R70 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"It is one of the very first art books which helped artists develop the aptitude for seeing the inner essence of various natural phenomena."--"Shambhala Sun"

""Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom" could fit neatly into any number of contemporary-sounding categories: hybrid text, art book, lyric essay, etc. It is a book that relies on interdependence of image and text, of history and the present, of evocation and concrete image."--"The Rumpus"

"Red Pine introduces Western readers to both the text itself and the traditions it has inherited."--"Virginia Quarterly Review"

Through a series of brief four-lined poems and illustrations, Sung Po-jen aims at training artistic perception: how to truly "see" a plum blossom. First published in AD 1238, "Guide to Capturing a Plum Blossom" is considered the world's earliest-known printed art books. This bilingual edition contains the one hundred woodblock prints from the 1238 edition, calligraphic Chinese poems, and Red Pine's graceful translations and illuminating commentaries.

"Tiger Tracks"

"winter wind bends dry grass
flicks its tail along the ridge
fearful force on the loose
don't try to braid old whiskers"

Red Pine's commentary: "The Chinese liken the north wind that blows down from Siberia in winter to a roaring tiger. China is home to both the Siberian and the South China tigers. While both are on the verge of extinction, the small South China tiger still appears as far north as the Chungnan Mountains, where hermits have shown me their tracks."

Sung Po-jen was a Chinese poet of the thirteenth century.

Red Pine (a.k.a. Bill Porter) is one of the world's foremost translators of Chinese poetry and religious texts. His published translations include "The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain," "Lao-tzu's Taoteching," and "Poems of the Masters." He lives near Seattle, Washington.

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