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Title: Heaven's true painting immortal
Creator: Morita, Sessai, 1811-1868
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: No signature. Four-character inscription "Heaven's true painting immortal" (trans. Stephen Addiss) in top half of painting followed by two seals at left edge center. One additional seal at lower right corner.
Medium: ink on paper
citation: Reproduced in Japanese Painting of the Edo Period (Rochester, MI: Meadow Brook Art Gallery, 1972).
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 42 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
calligraphy
Late Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb0b69p0ps
ucm_li_AS278
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: rock

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