Poetry and Charm: Feng Zikai Meets Takehisa Yumeji Commemorative Picture-book
In order to promote the communication of modern culture and art between China and Japan, the Foundation edited and published a special commemorative picture-book entitled Poetry and Charm: Feng Zikai Meets Takehisa Yumeji during the exhibition.
The picture-book, edited by Alice Wang, curator of the exhibition, includes several research results of Feng Zikai’s artistic works, 112 Feng’s artistic creation and 44 paintings of Takehisa Yumeji.
This picture-book shows the artistic achievements and humanistic feelings of the two masters through their indissoluble bound, and proves the historical origin of Sino-Japan modern culture and art communication.
Commemorative picture-book of Education with Love: Feng Zikai’s Art World
This picture-book is specially published to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Feng Zikai’s birth. It contains more than 400 paintings, manuscripts and calligraphy works of Feng Zikai. It shows his six identities as a painter, essayist, art theorist, music educator, binding designer and translator, and strives to reproduce Feng Zikai’s diverse artistic life in an all-round way.
It is the first time that Feng Zikai’s Da Shu Picture-book, En Gou Picture-book, Hu Sheng Art-book and his other works have been included in one picture-book, which shows Feng’s spirits of caring for his family, country and the world, being warm and honest, and protecting one’s physical and mental health. It has great commemorative significance and collection value.
Dream·Feng: the Sound of Soul commemorative picture-book (Japanese edition)
The commemorative picture-book (Japanese edition) is designed for the “Joint Art Exhibition of Takashi Mengji and Feng Zikai” at Tokyo Station in 2019 and is currently undergoing editing. This commemorative picture-book will be collected as a national gift of Japan.
Many parties in Japan have supported the editing of this picture-book. Former Japanese minister of MEXT, former President of Tokyo University, famous physics scholar Arima Akito, and member of the House of Representatives Constituency Yuko Obuchi (daughter of Obuchi Keizo, who jointly issued the “Japan-China Joint Declaration On Building a Partnership of Friendship and Cooperation for Peace and Development ” with former President Jiang Zemin in 1998) are all pleased to write a preface to the picture-book.
Collection of Feng Zikai’s Works: Life is short but Art is Lasting
“Art is not lonely, and it must be related to life; Beauty is not a form, and it must exist with truth and goodness.”
Under the instruction of Li Shutong, whose Buddhist name is Hongyi, Feng Zikai believed that the personality cultivation was the first priority and then came to literature and art, which was called “understanding art and literature after knowing instruments.”
Gentosha in Japan published this book in 2019 with Japanese-Chinese bilingual typesetting, and it was sold in bookstores throughout Japan.
Feng Zikai’s Family Letters
This is a collection of letters edited by Feng Yu, a descendant of Feng Zikai. It includes two parts: letters and paintings to Feng Xinmei. The book contains letters from Feng Zikai to his youngest son, Feng Xinmei, from 1959 to 1975, and other 15 letters to his son-in-law, Song Mufa, and grandson, Song Feijun, as well as his second son, Feng Yuancao, and his third daughter, Feng Ningxin. It involves the education of children and family matters, as well as Feng’s experience about poetry, calligraphy and painting. There are also many self-explanations of Feng Zikai’s state of mind in adversity, which can be viewed a real reflection of Feng Zikai’s state of mind in his later years. Such letters to his family, with ordinary words in a concise and simple writing style, are full of a father’s love for his children. They also nourish scholar’s literary literacy and man’s natural kindness.