A Night with the Shaggy Maned Immortal
Handscroll
Ink and water colours on Cloud-dragon Paper
23.5 x 556 cm
Summer 2017

With three seals of the artist:
墨者不朽  Mozhe buxiu (‘Let ink be my immortality’), 如如居士Ruru Jushi (‘The retired scholar who believes that all doctrines are equal’), and 養石閒人   Yangshi xianren (‘An idler who cherishes stones’)

Title Slip:
A Night with the Shaggy Maned Immortal

With one seal of the artist, 水松石山房 Shuisongshi shanfang  (‘The Water, Pine and Stone Retreat’)  

Title Panel:

A Night with the Shaggy Maned Immortal

Pine-shadowed moonlight pierces evening mist 
Woodsmen and birds home for the night
The chill of evening brought in on the breeze
Carrying the distant sound of a temple bell
As the door to my humble abode creaks open
Awaiting the Shaggy Maned Immortal
To drink with me and chant poems   
To the mottled scales of ancient pines 
Inscribed by the Master of the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat, at the
Garden at the Edge, Summer of 2017.

With three seals of the artist: 水松石山房 Shuisongshi shanfang  (‘The Water, Pine and Stone Retreat’), 人磨墨墨磨人 Renmomo momoren (‘Man grinds the ink; ink grinds the man’) and 竹虛老人Zhuxu laoren  (‘Old man as Empty Inside as Bamboo')