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Title: No footprints
Creator: Gion, Nankai, 1677-1751
Date Created and/or Issued: undated
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 one seal in left third at center. Eight-line inscription reads "I wanted to borrow the singing of the birds to help my poetic chanting, / But, alas! The lingering perfume now has withdrawn from the wood. / Spring has followed the river's flow, full of burgeoning fragrance; / In daytime they enlivened the courtyard, where shade was rich and green. / The palace beauty--her chambers cold--the sound of her song so sad; / The fledgling swallows--their tower empty--the shadows of curtains, deep. / One thing to enjoy--as old age comes, social ties cut off; / Along the flowered path, now there's no sight of footprints left by geta" (trans. Stephen Addiss).
Medium: ink on paper
citation: Reproduced in Stephen Addiss, "Shadows of Emotion: the Calligraphy, Painting and Poetry of Gion Nankai," Kaikodo Journal 9 (1998).
Biography/History: Artist also known as 祇園南海
Acquisition: Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art Permanent Collection. Ex Addiss-Seo Nanga Collection. Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Fred Levin, The Shenson Foundation in memory of Dr. A. Jess Shenson.
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; 49 x 100 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
calligraphy
Early to Middle Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb0s2006r0
ucm_li_AS229
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Poetry
Spring
Old age

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