Bamboo and poem
Zhu Lu Chinese
Not on view
Zhu Lu was an impoverished scholar from Suzhou who devoted himself to bamboo painting and poetry. This folding fan combines the two into an elegant composition: a wispy tendril of young bamboo reaches in from the right side, pointing toward the artist’s poem, which reads, in part:
New branches, half newly grown green sheaves;
Jade feeling, how richly shaped and carved!
I linger, come to hidden blue-green colors;
Here all suits my heart, nothing is at odds.
—Translation by Jonathan Chaves
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