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Title: Bat flying over the moon
Creator: Kameda, Bōsai, 1752-1826
Date Created and/or Issued: [1824 or 1825]
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: Inscribed "Those who seek are not free; / Those who are free do not seek" (trans. Stephen Addiss) along upper right edge. Signed "鵬斎老人書寫七十二" along lower right edge. One seal at upper right corner and two seals at center of lower third following signature.
Medium: ink on paper
Acquisition: Addiss-Seo Nanga Collection; on long-term loan to the Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art.
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, 133 x 25 cm.
Form/Genre: calligraphy
Edo (Japanese period)
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb096nb416
ucm_li_AS040
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Bats

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