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Yang Juyuan
Mid-Tang poet from Hezhong, courtesy name Jingshan, jinshi of 789 and Chancellor of the Imperial College, friend of Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen.
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 Jingshan · Juji (later name)
Yang Juyuan, courtesy name Jingshan and later renamed Juji, was from Hezhong in present-day Yongji, Shanxi. He took the jinshi in 789, served on Zhang Hongjing's staff, held the posts of collator, erudite of ceremonies and vice director of a bureau, and became vice prefect of Fengxiang. In 823 he was made vice chancellor of the Imperial College, retiring the next year, and was alive in 833. He knew Bai Juyi, Yuan Zhen, Liu Yuxi and Wang Jian; Yuan Zhen praised his verse as metal ringing and jade cutting. His poems are in the Complete Tang Poems and the Japanese Senzai kaku.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; jinshi in 789 CE, still alive in 833 CE