ROAD, mar (law) and Muqi Fachang (sh)

ROAD, mar (law)

ROAD, mar. law. A road is defined by Lord Hale to be an open passage of the sea, which, from the situation of the adjacent land, and its own depth and sea, which, from the situation of the adjacent land, and its own depth and wideness, affords a secure place for the common riding and anchoring of wideness, affords a secure place for the common riding and anchoring of vessels. Hale de Port. Mar. p. 2, c. 2. This word, however, does not appear vessels. Hale de Port. Mar. p. 2, c. 2. This word, however, does not appear to have a very definite meaning. 2 Chit. Com. Law, 4, 5. to have a very definite meaning. 2 Chit. Com. Law, 4, 5.

Muqi Fachang (sh)

or Mu-hsi Fa-ch'ang

flourished 13th century, Sichuan province, China

Chinese Chan (Japanese: Zen) Buddhist painter.

Toward the end of the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279), Muqi fled to a monastery near Hangzhou. He painted a variety of subjects
including landscapes, flowers, still lifes, and more orthodox iconographic subjects. The most famous paintings associated with Muqi include Six Persimmons and a triptych with a white-robed Guanyin flanked on either side by a scroll of monkeys and a crane. The paintings vary in style and subject matter, but there is throughout a sense of immediate vision and a totally responsive hand, expressed with broad and evocative washes of ink. His paintings on Chan themes stimulated many copies in Japan.

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