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Chapter 18 mr warrior and i

Mr. Fang Jisheng sent a letter from Tokyo, and it took three weeks to arrive. In the letter, he said that he met Mr. Takeshi Koji the day before yesterday. He liked the Jin brick and inkstone I gave him very much. He wanted to give me a painting of Tiezhai. Mr. Saki Joji brought it, and said that although he loves that painting very much, he doesn't know if Zhou Jun also likes it.In my reply to Ji Sheng, I said that I don’t understand foreign paintings, but I also love oriental-style paintings. Tomioka Tetsai can be said to be a pure oriental painter, and I think I must like his paintings.Among the six major painters in East and West, there are three illustrations by Tie Zhai, all of which I think are very good, such as presenting Xingu map, such as Rong Qiqi belting Suo map, even if they are miniature photocopied, I will never tire of seeing them, and now I can get one Really, this is really an unexpected blessing.

I first met Mr. Muzhekoji in the autumn of the eighth year of the Republic of China, twenty-four years ago.At that time, Mr. Wu Zhe (everyone called him that, and it is still used now) was running a new village in Hyuga, Japan. I went to visit him in the village. I stayed in the village among the mountains for four days, and stayed at Mr. Wu Zhe’s house. Later, I visited the new village branches in Osaka, Kyoto, Hamamatsu, and Tokyo along the way. It took a total of ten days.The second time was in the 23rd year of the Republic of China. I used my summer vacation to live in Tokyo for two months, met with Mr. Wu Zhe, and went to the Xincun branch to talk with him again.The third time was in the spring of the 30th year of the Republic of China. I went to Kyoto and Tokyo to attend the meeting of the East Asian Cultural Association. Several gentlemen from the Nippon PEN Club entertained me at the Hoshioka Saryo, and Mr. Takeshi was one of them.In April this year, Mr. Wu Zhe went to Nanjing to attend the Sino-Japanese Cultural Association, and then moved to Beijing, where he had to meet again. This is the fourth time.At that time, I went to Nanjing and Suzhou for a business trip, and when I came back, Mr. Wu Zhe was about to leave, and there was only one day to stay in the middle, so we met only on that day, at the symposium held by the Yong News Agency in the Beijing Hotel in the morning , came to me in the afternoon and had a hasty chat for a while.Calculated in this way, except for the first four days, I didn't have many conversations with Mr. Wu Zhe, but the relationship between them has been going on for a long time, so the friendship between the two is indeed very old.Mr. Cheng Wuzhe never gave up, mentioned it frequently in his articles, and said that when we met each other at the time when we were not famous, I found this very interesting.In fact, this is a polite remark. Twenty-four or five years ago, the Shirakaba faction was very famous in Japanese literature, and Mr. Wu Zha was its leader. My random writing of articles was indeed after that, but it has not yet happened. There is nothing snobbish about our communication, this is a real thing.After the incident, Mr. Wu Zhe often expressed his concern for me. It was about the winter of the 26th year. He said in an essay that he didn't know how Zhou Jun was feeling now, and he really wanted to hear his sincere words.At that time, I wrote back a letter to the effect that I would like to have a face-to-face interview if I had the opportunity, but I didn't want to express it in words, because as Ni Yunlin said, it is easy to say, and it is called Nogure in Japan.Hearing it again recently, Yun felt that he and Zhou Jun should have nothing to talk about. He was very moved, but he also felt ashamed.When people from two countries talk to each other, A has A's standpoint, and B has B's standpoint for martyrdom, so it is not easy to agree. This is a normal situation, but it is not difficult to understand and understand each other. At that time, it can be said successfully. Together, only those who are closer to the truth in the world will be farther away from the facts, so they often end up with sighs.It seems a pity that I haven't had a long and in-depth talk with Mr. Wu Zhe recently, but I feel satisfied. When I talk about the best fit, I'm afraid it's just a sigh. Even if I don't talk about it now, I still believe that there is nothing wrong with Mr. Wu Zhe It can’t be discussed, but it can be discussed together. This is a happy and happy thing. At first, I heard that Mr. Wu Zhe was going to roam in China. I thought it was a personal trip, so I wrote to a friend in Tokyo and asked him to forward the message. Please don't come out for the time being, because in this troubled world, people's hearts are uneasy, and Chinese culture is at a standstill, which is nothing to look at.Knowing that he came to belong to a group, it is a different matter. Mr. Wu Zhe has left a deep and good impression in China with his inherent simplicity and sincerity. I am also lucky.I only hope that after peace is achieved, Chinese culture and art will be ready. At that time, Mr. Wu Zhe will be invited to come to drive, even if there is no achievement to show, and people's livelihood will be stable, and we will be able to get together happily. It is also very interesting to report it happily, and to test whether it is true for those who think it must fit.

As for the brick and inkstone I gave to Mr. Wu Zhe, it is not so much an inkstone as a brick, it is a tomb brick from the Western Jin Dynasty, and it has the characters of the ninth year of Yuankang, which is the 290th year of the Christian era. Nine years, that is, 1,644 years ago.When I first collected ancient bricks, I chose the ones unearthed in Shaoxing, but after arriving in Beijing, I could no longer do so. I only took the ancient ones, and they were handicrafts, a kind of interesting antiques.Some people like to carve it into an inkstone, or a narcissus flowerpot, but I don't like it, but since it's done, I have to let it go.I wanted to give Mr. Wu Zhe an ancient brick as a commemoration of coming to Kuyuzhai, but it was too big and heavy to carry, so I picked this Yuankang broken brick, which happened to be cut into the shape of an inkstone, so it was called called inkstone.In fact, I gave it to him as a brick. If it is used as an inkstone, it must be very inappropriate. There are many good inkstones in Duanxi.As the old saying goes, throw bricks to attract jade.What I threw was just a brick, but unexpectedly a famous painting was brought in. This is exactly in line with the idiom, and it can be called a coincidence.The Autumnal Equinox Festival of Guiwei in the Republic of China.

The above article was written in late September.Because it was recorded in the newspaper at that time, when Mr. Wu Zhe came to China, I gave an inkstone as a gift, and I will give it back with a painting. I thought it was a good story about the communication between Chinese and Japanese literati.I just wanted to explain that what I gave was a brick, and the reason for giving it to him was that I had known him for many years. It was not for the sake of a literati, so I wrote three manuscript papers without thinking about the cost of words.The autumnal equinox was on the 24th. Two days later, Mr. Miyazaki came to visit and brought me the painting of Tie Zhai.This is a folding fan, with stockings as a vertical axis, on which four people are painted, one in green clothes scratches his back with a claw stick, one in red wears a paper twist to puncture his nose, one in green clothes and blue coat picks his ears, one in red clothes scratches his hair with both hands, There is one incense burner in front of the seat, three tea bowls and two pieces of paper.The title at the top reads:

After a long period of time, the head is too lazy, the hair is dirty, and the trees are combed, the Tao and the spirit will meet.The itchy place cannot be scratched enough, it depends on the hands of a boy, the subtleties cannot be conveyed, the osmanthus teeth turn their heads.Squeaking mouth, eyes and tail drooping, wanting to spray but not sending out, actually using paper to do things, waiting for the boat to leave the gate.If you want to get rid of ear itching, you must use * (left ear and right moon) sharply, focus on it and explore it deeply, and quickly fill your beard and hair.On the right, Li Chengde's painting, haircut, scratching, back stabbing and spraying * Er Sichang's picture praises, was written by Jue Fan, and was written and recorded by Tie Zhai.The last sentence of the first praise can be written, and the fourth sentence of the praise is seldom used words, all of which are missing. Now it is added according to the original fourteenth Zen volume of Shimen script.In the case of Wang Qihan of the Southern Tang Dynasty, there is a picture of picking ears. It seems that this kind of picture has existed in ancient times, and it is listed as the best, or it started with Li Chengde.According to Fang Yun of Qinghe Calligraphy and Painting, Li didn't know how to learn Wu Daozi's art and painting method, but the elegant and elegant style may be unique to Tiezhai, but I don't know painting more than poetry, and I dare not speak too much.Tie Zhai was born in the seventh year of Tianbao (the sixteenth year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty), and died on New Year's Eve in the thirteenth year of Taisho (the thirteenth year of the Republic of China) at the age of eighty-nine. Ten carry on.Remember again on October 1st.

(Written on September 24, 1943, and will be recorded again on October 1, from "Bitter and Sweet Mouth")
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