Bean Vine, Edo period (1615–1868), 18th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink on paper, Image: 49 1/2 x 18 7/8 in. (125.7 x 47.9 cm), Paintings, Itō Jakuchū (Japanese, 1716–1800), Jakuchū, son of a greengrocer, used vegetables and plants as a personal iconography that almost always included a moral or religious meaning. This handsome sketch of a bean plant, paired with a poem by an obaku Zen priest, Tangai Jōgi, explicitly refers to a story about the Chinese poet Cao Zhi (192–232) whose tyrannical brother, Cao Pi (Emperor Wen), once commanded him to compose a poem before he took seven steps, threatening him with execution if he failed
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