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Title: Woman with parasol in falling snow
Alternative Title: 縁先平安美人
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
Publication Information: Japan
Contributing Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
Collection: Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture collection
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Annotations/Markings: Signed with seal at upper right corner. No inscriptions.
Medium: Ink and colors on paper
Exhibitions: Exhibited: "Woman as Art / Woman as Artist: Two sides to the female figure in later Japanese painting" curated by Maiko Behr, The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, Hanford CA., September 6-December 5, 2005; "Patterned Meanings: Iconography and Symbolism in Japanese Dress" curated by Elizabeth Beller, The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, Hanford CA., January 7, 2003-March 29, 2003.
Biography/History: Artist also known as 森周峰 or 周峯. Elder brother of Mori Sosen.
Funding: Digitization funded by an Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Leadership Grant (LG 30-02-0260-02) awarded to the University of California, Merced Library.
Type: image
Format: 1 hanging scroll; 111 x 27 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Late Edo to Meiji
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb0870074w
ucm_li_1997_034
Subject: parasols
costume accessories carried
Women
snowflakes

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