Zhou Maoshu Admiring Lotuses (mid-17th century) by #Japanese artist Kaihō Yūsetsu (1598–1677). A bearded scholar here is recognizable as the Northern Song-dynasty philosopher Zhou Maoshu. A leading figure in early neo-Confucian thought, Zhou wrote, among other texts, the short essay “On the Love of the Lotus”, in which he describes the lotus as a “man of virtue,” in contrast to the “hermitlike” chrysanthemum and the “aristocratic” peony.

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