Hakui Shukusei　伯夷・叔斉

KEY WORD :　art history / paintings

Ch: Boyi Shuqi. Brothers who lived during the late Shang - early Zhou periods, who were praised by Confucius for declining to serve Zhou Emperor Wu (Jp: Bu 武) out of loyalty to Shang Emperor Zhou (Jp: Chuu 紂). They retired to Mt Shouyang 首陽, subsisted briefly on edible ferns warabi 薇, and eventually died of starvation. Hakui Shukusei were eulogized in the Shiji (Jp:SHIKI 史記; Records of the Historian) by Si Maqian (Jp: Shi Basen司馬遷; 145-90 BC). The pictorialized theme is also known as saibi-zu 採薇図 (Plucking ferns pictures). In Japan, notable examples include works attributed to Kanou Eitoku 狩野永徳 (1543-90), Kanou Tsunenobu 狩野常信 (1636-1713) and Hasegawa Touhaku 長谷川等伯 (1539-1610; MOA Museum, Shizuoka prefecture), and typically show the two brothers wearing scholar's robes and seated with a basket of ferns.

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