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Title: Bamboo and rock
Creator: Gion, Nankai, 1677-1751
Date Created and/or Issued: 1747
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 two seals following two-line inscription at top left corner.
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: 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; 101 x 37 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Middle Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb0t1nb2pb
ucm_li_AS232
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: bamboo
rock

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