Branch of an Old Blossoming Plum Tree

Because it blooms in February, before donning its leaves, the Chinese flowering plum (Prunus mume) is associated with winter and is regarded as a symbol of strength in the face of ...

Sugawara Michizane (845-903) was a brilliant Chinese literary scholar and statesman during Japan's Heian period (794-1185) who rose quickly to high courtly rank but was unjustly ex...

A native of Shanyin (modern Shaoxing) in Zhejiang province, Liu Shiru was one of the foremost specialists of ink plum in the sixteenth century. He is said as a boy to have been de...

Executed in plain black ink on paper, this monochromatic painting in vertical hanging scroll format depicts a delicate branch of blossoming plum. Dotted with clusters of flowers an...

This plum-blossom painting is an expressive combination of balanced contrasts: soft, rounded plum blossoms and buds delicately rest on sharp branches that burst in every direction;...

The walls of this elegantly shaped meiping vessel descend from the short, vertical neck, curve around the bulging shoulders, gently constrict to form the narrow waist, and then fla...

This is the right, two-panel screen from a pair intended to be viewed together as a single composition. It depicts a partial view of a cherry tree trunk, with just a few thin flowe...