Sentence examples for ch'i from inspiring English sources

He had to hold what he saw and felt, here and now, within a grid of potential brushstrokes or possible lines, without employing memory or imagination, for both were cheating.His task was, in fact, impossible: to catch what Taoists called the ch'i, or life-force, of his subject.

For helpful explanation of qi (but romanized as "ch'i"), see Schwartz 1985, 179 84.

November 22, 1863 Xiangtan, China September 16, 1957 Beijing, China Qi Baishi, Wade-Giles romanization Ch'i Pai-shih, original name Qi Chunzhi, also called Qi Huang (born November 22, 1863, Xiangtan, Hunan province, China died September 16 , 1957 Beijing) with Zhang Daqian, one of the last of the great traditional Chinese painters.

The Chinese chronicles provide information about the tributes sent individually by five Japanese "kings" to Liu-Sung and Southern Ch'i during the 5th century.

Examples of his "grass" style are two screen landscapes in the Tokyo National Museum and the figures of two Chinese brothers Po I and Shu Ch'i painted on screens, now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

The subject is Zen inspired; the soft ink-wash technique reflects the influence of Mu Ch'i Fa-ch'ang, a 13th-century Chinese Zen Buddhist painter whose style was widely emulated by the Japanese priest-painters.

A third source of opposition came from Yuan's direct subordinates, Generals Duan Qirui (Tuan Ch'i-jui) and Feng Guozhang (Feng Kuo-chang), whose powers Yuan had attempted to curtail.

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, also called Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Grove, Pinyin romanization Zhulinqixian, Wade-Giles romanization Chu-lin ch'i-hsien, a group of Chinese scholars and poets of the mid-3rd century ad who banded together to escape from the hypocrisy and danger of the political world of government officialdom to a life of drinking wine and writing verse in the country.

Go, (Japanese), also called i-go, Chinese (Pinyin) weiqi, (Wade-Giles) wei-ch'i, Korean baduk or pa-tok, board game for two players.

Qilian Mountains, Chinese (Pinyin) Qilian Shan, or (Wade-Giles romanization) Ch'i-lien Shan, also called Nan Shan, rugged mountain range on the border of Qinghai and Gansu provinces, west-central China.

He executed many paintings on the sliding panels of the Reiun-in monastery in Kyōto, where he decorated three rooms with landscapes painted in the styles of three different Chinese masters: the soft ink-wash style of Mu-ch'i Fa-ch'ang (late 12th early 13th century); the hard, stiff style of Hsia Kuei (1195 1224); and the broken ink style of Yü Chien (c. 1230).