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Shōkadō Shōjō

Japanese artist

Fujiwara Yukinari

Japanese calligrapher

Ike Taiga

Japanese painter

Mi Fu

Chinese artist

Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini

Italian scholar

Wu Changshuo

Chinese artist

Dong Qichang

Chinese artist

Huizong

emperor of Song dynasty

Edward Johnston

British calligrapher

Khwāja ʿAbd-uṣ-Ṣamad

Persian painter

Rudolf Koch

German artist

Huang Tingjian

Chinese poet and calligrapher

Wen Zhengming

Chinese artist

Esther Inglis

Scottish calligrapher

Zhao Mengfu

Chinese painter

Ibn al-Bawwāb

Arab calligrapher

W.A. Dwiggins

American artist

Muẓaffar ʿAlī

Persian artist

Qi Baishi

Chinese painter

Ibn Muqlah

Islamic calligrapher