hsuan-yai
"overhanging"


Page 38, 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 "growing on [a steep cliff]."
Also, the characters are found on page 80, Book of Rocks, as "overhanging."



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), pp. 90, 208.