Mount Fuji, late 18th century, Shibano Ritsuzan, Japanese, 1736 - 1807, 67 3/8 ¡Ñ 21 11/16 in. (171.13 ¡Ñ 55.09 cm) (image), Ink on paper, Japan, Cursive script (s?sho), Shibano Ritsuzan was a Confucian scholar and literatus¡Xa learned person who cultivated his skills in arts and letters. In 1787 he was summoned to serve the Tokugawa shogunate government. Ritsuzan became one of the main architects of legal codes that enforced the stricter Neo-Confucian teachings of Zhu Xi (1130¡V1200) and ended earlier steps towards liberalization. This is one of Ritsuzan¡¦s most famous verses. Written in running script, he disregarded the five-character format of his poem and wrote it rather unorthodox in four columns of 13-12-12-3 characters.