Confucian Exhortation
- Medium
- Hanging scroll, ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 10 3/8 × 10 5/16 in. (26.35 × 26.19 cm) (image) 45 1/8 × 13 11/16 in. (114.62 × 34.77 cm) (mount, without roller)
- Genre
- Calligraphy
Tags
Japan
About
上大人丘一已化三 / 千七十子你小生八 / 九子可作仁可 / 知礼也 The supremely great man Confucius, just a single individual, transformed 3, 070 disciples. You, my students, number only eight or nine. Can you negate Humaneness, or depart from Propriety? (Trans. Stephen Addiss)
![River Winds [center scroll of a triptych]](https://1.api.artsmia.org/118916.jpg)
![River Winds [left scroll of a triptych]](https://1.api.artsmia.org/118917.jpg)
![River Winds [right scroll of a triptych]](https://1.api.artsmia.org/118915.jpg)