Artist: Zhao Puchu

Date: Modern, dated 1987

Dimensions: Height 30.0 cm, Width 41.0 cm

Material: Ink on paper

• Object Type：
  • CALLIGRAPHY
• Location：
  • Zhao Puchu Gallery
• Tag：
  • poem visit to japan running script concertina-fold album zhao puchu 1987 ink paper

In 1987, Zhao Puchu led a Chinese Buddhist delegation to Japan for a good-will visit. During his stay in Japan from August 1 to 27, Zhao attended the Summit of International Religious Leaders in Kyoto, participated in a commemorative activity of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, and paid visits to Mount Hiei, the Kurobe Dam in Toyama Prefecture, and the Okinawa Prefectural Museum. All these activities were recorded in Zhao's poems, which were further compiled into this album. The album, written with a flowing brushwork, features good arrangements of space between characters and vertical columns. Zhao wrote the poems at the age of eighty-one.