The Poet Li Bo's Visit to Mount Emei. Artist: Shiokawa Bunrin (Japanese, 1808-1877). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: Image (each): 59 5/8 in. x 11 ft. 6 5/8 in. (151.4 x 352.1 cm). Date: 1875.Watery ink and small gold flecks sprinkled among valleys and mist create a luminous night scene under a hazy moon. The gentleman riding in the boat on the right screen is the famous Tang Chinese poet Li Bo (701-762), who was inspired by moonlit Mount Emei in Sichuan to compose a poem:The autumn moon is half round above theEmei Mountain;Its pale light falls in and flows with the water ofthe Pingqiang River.Tonight I leave Qingxi of the limpid stream forthe Three Gorges,And glide down past Yuzhou, thinking of youwhom I cannot see.Four years later, Li Bo returned to the area and composed a longer poem. In Japan, the two poems became particularly famous. Shiokawa Bunrin's training was in the realist school of Shijo , but he was also familiar with the aesthetics of the nanga, or bunjinga, literat