Hui Tsung
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At one extreme we see the almost chiseled formality of the 12th century Emperor Hui Tsung's script, with its flicking exactness of stroke; at the other, the blithely spontaneous notation of the 8th century Zen Buddhist monk Huai-su, who liked to work when drunk on rice wine.
From Time Magazine Archive
Playing his feminine roles he seemed like a painting of Hui Tsung miraculously come to elastic, undulating life.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was so closely allied to painting that the Emperor Hui Tsung, who ascended the throne in 1100, founded the Imperial Academy of Calligraphy and Painting in the first year of his reign.
From Project Gutenberg
Hui Tsung was himself a painter.
From Project Gutenberg
Such were the conditions upon which Hui Tsung instituted examinations, following which the doors of the Academy were open to the victor.
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