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Letter from Mi Fu to Su Shi on Reclaiming a Purple-Gold Inkstone

CHINA; Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), dated 1101; By Mi Fu; Running script; Ink on paper; 28.2 x 39.7 cm; National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Mi Fu once loaned Su Shi a purple-gold inkstone, and this letter was written in an attempt to kindly request its return to him. Seven lines of 44 characters comprise the text, in which Mi uses profound and considerably perplexing wording to praise Su's apparent pure and wondrous nature." Although this exhibits Mi Fu's playful character and the lightheartedness of the request

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