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Nine Songs 九歌圖   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist

Unknown
佚名

After Zhao Mengfu
倣趙孟頫
(1254–1322)
Title
Nine Songs
九歌圖
Description

The Metropolitan Museum of Art states:

The Nine Songs are lyrical, shamanistic incantations dedicated to nine classes of deities worshipped by the Chu people of south China during the first millennium B.C. The original text consists of eleven songs, ten of which are transcribed and illustrated here. The illustrations are preceded by a portrait of the poet Qu Yuan (343–277 B.C.), which is accompanied by an essay entitled "The Fisherman," recounting the poet's state of mind toward the end of his life.
Zhao Mengfu's paintings for the Nine Songs in the baimiao, or "white-drawing" style, are based on compositions by Li Gonglin (ca. 1041–1106) and were a primary source for later fourteenth-century paintings of this theme by Zhang Wu (active 1333–65) and others. Because the calligraphy in the album does not compare with the best of Zhao Mengfu's writing, it is probable that these leaves represent close, reliable copies of Zhao's important work, executed during the fourteenth century. One leaf, "The Lord of Clouds," is a later replacement (no earlier than the seventeenth century).
Date 14th century (?)
Medium Album of eleven paintings; ink on paper
Dimensions 10 3/8 x 6 1/4 in. (26.4 x 15.9 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Asian Art
Accession number
1973.121.15a–p
Credit line Ex coll.: C. C. Wang Family, Fletcher Fund, 1973
Inscriptions

Chinese text, standard script:

操吳戈兮被犀甲，　　車錯轂兮短兵接。
旌蔽日兮敵若雲，　　矢交墜兮士爭先。
凌余陣兮躐余行，　　左驂殪兮右刃傷。
霾兩輪兮縶四馬，　　援玉枹兮擊鳴鼓。
天時懟兮威靈怒，　　嚴殺盡兮棄原壄。
出不入兮往不反，　　平原忽兮路超遠。
帶長劍兮挾秦弓，　　首雖離兮心不懲。
誠既勇兮又以武，　　終剛強兮不可凌。
身既死兮神以靈，　　魂魄毅兮為鬼雄。
右國殤

English translation:

Grasping our great shields and wearing our hide armour,
Wheel-hub to wheel-hub locked, we battle hand to hand.
Our banners darken the sky; the enemy teem like clouds:
Through the hail of arrows the warriors press forward.
They dash on our lines; they trample our ranks down.
They left horse has fallen, the right one is wounded.
The wheels are embedded, the foursome entangled:
Seize the jade drumstick and beat the sounding drum!
The time is against us: the gods are angry.
Now all lie dead, left on the field of battle.
They went out never more to return:
Far, far away they lie, on the level plain,
Their long swards at their belts, clasping their Qin bows,
Head from body sundered: but their hearts could not be vanquished.
Both truly brave and also truly noble;
Strong to the last, they could not be dishonoured.
Their bodies may have died, but their souls are living:
Heroes among the shades their valiant souls will be.
To the right is ‘Hymn to the Fallen’

Signed in Chinese, standard script:

大德九年八月廿五日吳興趙孟頫畫并書。
Notes

The album comprises:

  • Leaf A
    Leaf A
  • Leaf B Portrait of Qu Yuan 屈原像
    Leaf B
    Portrait of Qu Yuan
    屈原像
  • Leaf C The Great Unity, God of the Eastern Sky 東皇太一
    Leaf C
    The Great Unity, God of the Eastern Sky
    東皇太一
  • Leaf D The Lord within the Clouds 雲中君
    Leaf D
    The Lord within the Clouds
    雲中君
  • Leaf E The Goddess of the Xiang 湘君
    Leaf E
    The Goddess of the Xiang
    湘君
  • Leaf F The Lady of the Xiang 湘夫人
    Leaf F
    The Lady of the Xiang
    湘夫人
  • Leaf G The Greater Master of Fate 大司命
    Leaf G
    The Greater Master of Fate
    大司命
  • Leaf H The Lesser Master of Fate 少司命
    Leaf H
    The Lesser Master of Fate
    少司命
  • Leaf I The Lord of the East 東君
    Leaf I
    The Lord of the East
    東君
  • Leaf J The River Earl 河伯
    Leaf J
    The River Earl
    河伯
  • Leaf K The Mountain Spirit 山鬼
    Leaf K
    The Mountain Spirit
    山鬼
  • Leaf L Hymn to the Fallen 國殤
    Leaf L
    Hymn to the Fallen
    國殤
... and leaf M, N, O, and P (consisting of colophons of a later date), which are not uploaded on Wikimedia Commons.
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https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/40511

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