Radically Chinese

for Eric Mottram: 1924-1995 (not because of any debt, felt or incurred)

one stroke a point

leftstroke bent

hooked

two a cover man

man enter eight borders to cover ice

table receptacle

knife strength

wrap spoon basket

box ten to divine

seal cliff private

also mouth enclosure

earth

scholar follow

walk evening

great woman child

roof inch small

lame crooked corpse

sprout mountain stream

work self

napkin shield

tiny shelter

move on

join hands

a dart a bow

pig’s head feathery

to pace heart spear door

hand branch

tap writings

measure axe square not sun

speak

moon wood owe

stop evil kill

do not compare hair family air water

fire

claws father

change a frame a strip

tooth

ox

dog

dark jade

melon

tile

sweet produce

use field

bolt of cloth

sick back to back

white skin dish

eye lance arrow stone

spirit to track grain cave

erect bamboo rice silk earthenware net

sheep feathers old

plough ear

brush flesh officer from self reach

a mortar tongue opposed boat a limit

colour grass tiger

insect blood do clothes cover

see horn

words

valley

platter

pig

reptile shell red

walk

foot body

cart bitter time

stop & go

city new wine separate village

metal long gate plenty

reach to a bird rain

azure false face

rawhide leather leek

sound heading wind

fly eat head fragrance

horse bone high

long hair fight wine cauldron ghost

fish bird

salt deer

wheat

hemp

yellow millet

black embroidery toad

tripod

drum rodent nose

even teeth drag on tortoise flute