Ch: Fuxi. A legendary Chinese sage and ruler who was the founder of Chinese civilization and first sovereign of the Five Rulers (Ch: Wudi, Jp: Gotei 五帝). Also called Taihao (Jp: Taikō 太昊), the Great Power. He is credited with giving previously primitive people hunting, fishing, farming, and the law of marriage. He also invented Chinese writing and government. In Edo period Japanese painting, Fukugi is represented as a patriarchal old man with a long beard and long hair, dressed in leaves and holding the yin-yang (Jp: tomoe 巴) disc. He may also stand by a river and is associated with the tortoise. It is believed that Fukugi was depicted on a now-destroyed sliding screen, *fusuma 襖, by Kano Eitoku 狩野永徳 (1543-90) at Oda Nobunaga's 織田信長 (1534-82) Azuchijō 安土城. An extant example is in a set of five paintings of sages by Kano Tan'yū 狩野探幽 (1602-74).