Study on visualization of touhu 投壺 and touhuge 投壺格

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Study on visualization of touhu 投壺 and touhuge 投壺格

¹이화여자대학교

ABSTRACT
열림/닫힘 버튼

‘Touhu,’ a game of putting arrows in a bottle, has been regarded as a game for elite since it was recorded in the classic book Liji 禮記. It has been for a long time visualized variously as responding to scholar’s interest. There are three kinds of image of touhu. The first image is about the implements of touhu, hu壺 of bottle and shi矢 of arrows. It shows the clear change into more decorative one. Secondly, some images of touhu were interpreted as images related to famous lines of literature. Yi Man-su, a scholar of the late Joseon, made sixty-images of ‘touhuge’ that show special shapes of a bottle and arrows after a player’s putting arrows toward the bottle in the touhu game. Yi named sixty touhuge, comparing the number of arrows with similar lines of classical poems in a playful and pedantic way. This way became popular in the Ming China. Touhu-stamps that scholars of late Joseon enjoyed are decorated with classical poem or famous phrases. Lastly, several paintings of late Joseon portray touhu-game as a main theme. One of the paintings shows Si Ma-guang, a great scholar who arranged the rule of touhu. In other many paintings, schloars are playing touhu in elegant ways. Touhu also became a theme in genre paintings or folk paintings. In a folk painting, a wonderful hu is displayed as an expensive antiques.
KEYWORDS
열림/닫힘 버튼

Touhu投壺, Painting of Game, Painting of Touhu, Playful Numbers

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