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Ch: Fuxi. A legendary Chinese sage and ruler, who was the founder of Chinese civilization and first sovereign of the Five Rulers (Ch: wudi, Jp: gotei Œά’ι). Also called Taihao (Jp: Taikou ‘Ύέ), the Great Power. He is credited with giving previously primitive people hunting, fishing, farming, and the law of marriage. He also invented Chinese writing and government. In Edo period Japanese painting, Fuxi is represented as a patriarchal old man with a long beard and long hair, dressed in leaves and holding the yin-yang (Jp: tomoe ”b) disc. He may also stand by a river and is associated with the tortoise. It is believed that Fuxi was depicted on a now destroyed sliding screen *fusuma ‰¦ by Kanou Eitoku Žλ–μ‰i“Ώ (1543-90) at Oda Nobunaga's D“cM’· (1534-82) Azuchijou ˆΐ“yι. An extant example is in a set of five paintings of sages by Kanou Tan'yuu Žλ–μ’T—H (1602-74).
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