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Ch: Li Guang sheshi. Lit. "Li Guang shooting a rock." The Han dynasty archer Li Guang (Jp: Ri Kō 李広) who, on a trip to Nanshan (Jp: Nanzan 南山), saw a large rock in a clump of grass. Thinking it was a tiger, he shot an arrow but with such force that it penetrated the stone. The best known Japanese painting of this somewhat rare theme is by Ogata Kōrin 尾形光琳 (1658-1716, Tokyo National Museum).