Uragami Gyokudo

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Uragami Gyokudō (1745 - October 10, 1820) was a Japanese musician, painter, poet and calligrapher. In his lifetime, he was best known as a player of the chinese zither, the guqin, but people came to appreciate his paintings after his death.

One of his music works, the Gyokudō kinpu 玉堂琴譜, is available online

See also Uragami Gyokudō and the chinese zither guqin based on the book Tall Mountains and Flowing Waters; The Arts of Uragami Gyokudō by Stephen Addiss, Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1987, ISBN 0-8248-1039-2.