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Li Jia
Northern Song native of Huating, courtesy name Jingyuan, painter of feathers and bamboo whose ci imitate Liu Yong; nine survive in the Complete Song Ci.
In a study at night, a desk holds a brush pot, a porcelain vase with a plum branch, a lit red lantern, a folded fan and an unrolled blank scroll, with no one seated there, while through a round window the moon rises over a lake with a sailboat.
Also known as Courtesy name Jingyuan · Recluse of Huating
Li Jia, courtesy name Jingyuan and sobriquet Recluse of Huating, came from Huating county (modern Songjiang, Shanghai) and was a Northern Song ci poet and painter. He was magistrate of Wukang in the Yuanfu years (1098-1100). Skilled at painting bird feathers and bamboo, he drew praise from Mi Fu and Su Shi. His ci imitate Liu Yong; the Complete Song Ci holds nine, and the Three Hundred Song Ci selects two.
Life and times
- UnknownBorn
Songcounty magistrate of Wukang in the Yuanfu years (1098-1100 CE) - UnknownDied
Works
Literature · Lyrics2- Spring at the Imperial Terrace · Fragrant Grass So GreenSongLi Jia's long ci of meeting spring far from home, unable to forget a companion of old
- Remembering the Prince · Lush Fragrant GrassSongShort ci usually credited to Li Jia: spring grass, a cuckoo, and a door shut on the dusk rain