Northern-Sòng recluse-poet, zì Jūnfù 君復, posthumous Héjìng xiānshēng 和靖先生 (canonized by Rénzōng), of Hángzhōu 杭州. Lived for over twenty years on Gūshān 孤山 island in the West Lake, refusing all summons to office; the conventional self-image of the bachelor recluse, “took the plum-blossom for wife and the crane for child” 梅妻鶴子. Famous for the plum-blossom couplet “shū yǐng héng xié shuǐ qīng qiǎn / àn xiāng fú dòng yuè huáng hūn” 疏影橫斜水清淺 / 暗香浮動月黄昏 (from Shānyuán xiǎo méi 山園小梅) — the most quoted plum-blossom line in Chinese poetry. Died Tiānshèng 6 / 1028 age 62. Posthumous collection Lín Héjìng jí KR4d0013 (4 juǎn) edited by his grandson Lín Dàyán 林大言, with preface by Méi Yáochén 梅堯臣 dated 1053. Iconographically the founder of the méiqī hèzǐ type in YuánMíng painting. CBDB id 29845, lifedates 957–1028. (Catalog meta gives 967–1028 — this 967 birth-year is a transmission slip; the standard date adopted from CBDB and the Sòngshǐ j. 457 biography is 957.)