Physical Object / Poem card with waterfall and calligraphy

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Title: Poem card with waterfall and calligraphy
Creator: Unknown
Contributing Institution: California State University, Sacramento Library
Collection: Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection
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Description: These small cards bearing calligraphy and/or artwork are used to evoke a mood or feeling in keeping with the theme of a tea gathering. Mounted on small hanging scrolls (tanzaku kake), they are displayed in the guests gathering room or near the initial entryway. This poem card depicts a waterfall landscape with calligraphy whose characters read "hakuunchu" or "hakuun no naka", which may be translated "In the midst of white clouds".
Type: physical object
Format: 2 1/4" w x 14 1/4" h
Paper, ink
Identifier: 2005.05.0089
41
Case 1, Shelf 3
322.cpd
http://csus.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/teaware/id/321
Subject: Tanzaku
Japanese tea ceremony
Calligraphy, Japanese
Poetry
Relation: Sokiku Nakatani Japanese Teaware Collection

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