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Nine Old Men from Kôzan
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The two old men playing the game of go, the other seven standing around them. The nine old men were friends of the poet Bai Juyi (772-846), known in Japan as Hakurakuten, an ambitious man who made so many enemies that he was eventually exiled to the provinces. With two poems.
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Credit lineNegen oude mannen uit Kôzan. c. 1822. Yashima Gakutei. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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