Chinese Romance From A Japanese Brush Drinks Sir Topham Hatt

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Chinese Romance From A Japanese Brush Drinks Sir Topham HattThis sumptuous book takes as its subject the pair of magnificent picture scrolls entitled "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" (Chogonka gakan) held in the Chester Beatty Library's Japanese collection. Created by the Kyoto Kano School master Sansetsu (1590 1651) in the early Edo period, the painting depicts the tragic love story of the Tang emperor Minghuang and his beloved concubine Yang Guifei, as told by the great Tang poet Bai Juyi in 806. Yang Guifei was