中国絵画にみる漢字文化的思考

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論文 (Article)　My research into concepts of Chinese culture in the Chinese language seeks the contemporary meanings of those concepts by examining the relationships that connect the structure of Chinese characters to Chinese words and the characteristic features found in the modes of thought typical of the cultural and geographical regions that use or were influenced by the character. This research paper, focusing on painting, explores the relationships between various aspects of Chinese painting and Chinese cultural concepts as they occur in the Chinese language.　Western thinking is very insistent on separating painting from poetry. In contrast, this paper concentrates on the connection between Chinese painting and poetry in order to argue that the origin of Chinese painting resides in poetry-that, Chinese painters do not imitate nature, but paint as if they were writing a poem. I argue, moreover, that a search for the primitive form of Chinese painting leads back to the patterns in oracle bone scripts and bronze ware.