chih-kan
"straight trunk"


Page 51, Book of Trees, from the Shanghai (1887-88) Edition
of the original 1679 The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting.
The yellow hi-lighted characters translate as "straight trunks."



NOTES

Sze, Mai-Mai (ed.)  The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting (Princeton, NJ: Bollingen Foundation and Princeton University Press; 1956, 1963.  Second paperback printing, 1978), pg. 103.