Book of Northern Wei and document Ken Zhao Zhi (Calligraphy Museum)

(Translated by Google Translate)

ChonoKen, is known there is no aim in writing aristocratic face-like true Lord and Wang Xizhi, the epic book, such as the inscriptions of the Northern Wei period, as a representative figure of the so-called monument school.

ChonoKen was born in merchant of Shaoxing, but birthplace is downfall. And moved to Tokyo to Beijing as possible to the officials, to receive the imperial examination, but fails, and began to make a living from painting and calligraphy.

In the process, became to be deprived of the mind in the book dynamic thick of the Northern Wei period.

While inheriting the spirit of the book of such Northern Wei period, it is not until then, the book of Ken Zhi Zhao, represents a new form of writing.

Picture of numerous Ken Zhi Zhao that drew for a living. Those drawn in vivid colors, the plants and flowers in many cases. Not so finely, brushwork depicts the subject briefly.

Both, not a feeling that masterpiece, eye-popping, but full of handmade feeling, it's a picture with a taste.

In addition, the venue became significantly altering the life of Ken Zhi Zhao, calligraphy Longmen Grottoes of the Northern Wei period has also been exhibited several points.

Any such circumstances that made the Buddha of each of the dragon Gate Grottoes is written.

It's what was written in much the same age, but the shape is different, and feel of the person who wrote it and individuality.

ChonoKen underwent several times imperial examination, but it is not able to pass eventually give up finally, it chose to become local government.

When it late in the Qing. Caught up in the Taiping Rebellion, and lost his wife and children, it will be busy in the affairs of the processing of their own, time spent on painting and calligraphy also became less and less.

You do, in my life that can not be said to be blessed always, Ken Zhao Zhi who left the painting and calligraphy of many. Its name was engraved in the mind intensely.