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Also
known as Minghuang (Jp: Meikou Ÿc). Ch: Xuanzong (685-762). The sixth emperor
of the Tang dynasty, well-known for his patronage of scholarship, religion
and the arts, including his founding of the Hanlin ËÑ painting Academy in
754. His love for Yangguifei (Jp: *Youkihi kMÜ;
719-56) and the political patronage of her family, however, culminated in
a rebellion in 755 led by An Lushan (Jp: An Rokusan À\R; ?-757) that forced
Xuanzong and his love to flee from the capital in Changan (Jp: Chouan ·À) to the province
of Shu å (or Sichuan lì).Gensou was painted by Chinese in several
contexts, including official idealized portraits, didactic paintings of
Good and Bad Emperors teikan-zu éÓ}, and the Journey to Shu (Ch:
Minghuang Xingshu, Jp: Meikou Koushoku ŸcKå). The earliest Japanese depictions
of Gensou follow Chinese illustrations of The Song of Everlasting Sorrow
(Ch: Chang henge, Jp:Chougonka ·ŠÌ), a narrative ode by Bai Letian
(Jp: *Haku Rakuten yV;
772-846). The theme was painted in the Muromachi period, but the earliest
extant examples are *Kanouha
ëìh screens from the Momoyama period. In Japan, Gensou is almost always
depicted with Youkihi, and by the Momoyama period the couple were
often shown together with Tang courtiers in a subject called *fuuryuujin-zu
¬w}. In the Edo period *Maruyama-Shijouha
~Rlðh and *ukiyo-e
¢G artists often exploited the erotic implications of the Gensou-Youkihi theme. |
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