Xu Wei (徐渭) calligraphy

In the interests of scholarship and to provide a concise resource for interested parties, I am posting some examples of Xu Wei’s cursive calligraphy, scanned from a book I bought in China.

Commissioned poetic text in cursive script.

Commissioned poetic text in running cursive script

Running cursive poem – Returning Home Late

Running cursive poem, standing scroll

A Du Fu poem in cursive script

Poem in cursive script by Cen Shen

Running script poem – White Swallow Poem Scroll

A sonnet in running script

Cursive scroll poem, signed Tian Chi

Running script poem – Spring Garden Thin Rain

The texts are mostly poems written by Xu Wei himself, but there is also a poem by Du Fu (712 – 770) and Cen Shen (715–770).