1832-1856 Ink and pen on paper 132 cm long, 19.5 cm wide Lai Weiqing, the grandfather of the great scholar Lai Shanyang (1781-1832) in the middle and late Edo period of Japan, was a wealthy businessman in the dyeing business in Hiroshima. Since then, he has gradually become a scholarly family. His father, Lai Chunshui (1746-1816), his uncles, Lai Chunfeng (1753-1825) and Lai Xingping (1756-1834), were called "Three Lai" because of their expertise in poetry, calligraphy and painting. Together with Lai Shanyang and his three sons Lai Yuan (1801-1856), Lai Zhifeng (1823-1889), and Lai Sanshu Saburo (1825-1859), they are collectively called "Seven Lai". In Japan in the middle and late Edo period, there were important position. This book is written as a book written by Lai Yu'an, the eldest son of Shanyang, in his later years. Yu'an was good at calligraphy. In his early years, Shanyang was used as a model, and later he combined Su Shi's calligraphy style and inherited his own family. At that time, there was a saying that Yu'an's calligraphy surpassed Shanyang. According to legend, after Yu'an died in Shanyang, he was addicted to drinking alcohol. Therefore, his writing style in his later years tended to be unrestrained, and this work belongs to this type of writing style.
