Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy

Master Cheng's Admonition on Seeing, Hearing, Words, and Deeds (Chengzi shi ting yan dong zhi zhen), in clerical script.
By Deng Shiru, 1739/1743-1805.
Four panels, ink on paper.

Loan Courtesy Guanyuan Shanzhuang Collection.
Photography by Kaz Tsuruta.