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Title: 般若心経書•山水図
Alternative Title: Hannya heart sutra
Creator: Ike, Taiga, 1723-1776
Date Created and/or Issued: [17--]
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 "Mumei" with two seals "Ike Mumei no in" and "Sangaku dōja" at lower left corner. A third seal "Dōsei" is at the right edge below the middle. The entire upper section of painting and left half of lower portion are filled with an inscription taken from the Heart Sutra thought to be a copy of a version of the text found at the end of Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Holy Buddhist Scripture (J. "Seikyō jo)
Medium: ink and light colors on paper
Exhibitions: Exhibited: "Delightful Pursuits: Highlights from the Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center," curated by Kobayashi Tadashi, organized by The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc., Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Oita Art Museum, The Museum of Art, Ehime, and Chiba City Museum of Art, April 16, 2002-February 2, 2003.
citation: Listed and reproduced in Kobayashi Tadashi and Samuel C. Morse, eds., Delightful Pursuits: Highlights from the Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 2002).
Biography/History: Artist also known as 池大雅
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, 137 x 59 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Middle Edo
Nanga
religious texts
calligraphy
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb0p3007gp
ucm_li_2001_017
Language: Chinese
chi
Subject: Art, Buddhist

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