Yang Buzhi (1098–1167) was born in Qingjiang (modern Huai'an), Jiangxi Province, in China. He is regarded as a master of ink paintings of plum blossoms in the Song Dynasty, and developed techniques which influenced later painters. He "resolved the depiction of flowering plum into a linear system built from brushstrokes and structures adapted from calligraphy". Four Stages of Blossoming Plum, circa 1165, is the only surviving work that can be attributed to him with certainty. References 1098 births 1167 deaths Song dynasty painters People from Yichun, Jiangxi Painters from Jiangxi