Muqi Fachang

Early Ming Muqi Copy, Chinese Zhe School, from the Nantoyōsō Collection in Japan

Muqi Fachang (1210?-1269?) (Wade-Giles: Mu-ch'i Fa-ch'ang) (Japanese: 牧谿 Mokkei) was a Chinese Zen Buddhist monk and renowned painter who lived in the 13th century, around the end of the Southern Song dynasty. His surname is thought to be Xue; Muqi was a hao or pseudonym, and Fachang a monastic name. Muqi was perhaps from the city of Kaifeng in Hunan Province. Likewise, a possibility is Sichuan. A painting bears the inscription "monk from Shu(Sichuan)." He originally studied at the Wan-nian Monastery on Mt. Wutai. Muqi was doubtlessly drawn to the beauty of the West Lake in Hangzhou and refounded the abandoned monastery, Liutong Temple there in 1215. He is said to have been the disciple of Wujun Shifan (1178–1269). The monastery would have its place in the subsequent golden age of Chinese monochrome ink painting inspired by Chan (Zen) Buddhism. Muqi's masterpiece was the White-robed Guanyin (Japanese: 観音猿鶴図) preserved in the Daitokuji temple in Kyoto, Japan. This painting and others were to have a profound influence on the subsequent development of ink painting in Japan itself. Muqi's artwork covered a wide range of subjects, including portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. The aesthetic ideals of Muqi and other Zen Buddhist artists were overshadowed by the emerging literati ideals of painting.　Yet even in the Yuan and early Ming period his works were copied as evidenced by the c. 14th century copy of the `White Robed Guanyin` reproduced with this article and now preserved in Japan.

BOOKS

• Toda Teisuke, Mokkei and Gyokkan, Great Compendium of India Ink Paintings, vol. 3, Kodansha, 1973.
• Max Loehr, The Great Painters of China, Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1980.

ARTICLES

• Shen Moujian, Encyclopedia of Chinese Artists (Zhongguo meishu jia renming cidian), Shanghai, p. 540.
• Sickman and Soper, The Pelican History of Art, Middlesex, 1956, pp. 260–3.

• Jane Turner ed., The Dictionary of Art, Macmillan, 1996, vol. 22, pp. 325–6.

External links

• Art Institute of Chicago: Muqi's Portrait of Laozi

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