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Title: Akashi Bay
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: 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, 37 x 51 cm. Signed "玉蘭" with two seals at lower right corner. One additional seal in center of right third of painting. Inscribed with a poem "あかしがた / こほよの月の / 影きよく / 波ぢはるけき / ふねぞこぎ行く" (On Akashi Bay / this evening's moon / is glittering brightly - / boats far out at sea / are rowing away. -- trans. Stephen Addiss). ink on paper
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
calligraphy
Middle Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb0v19p15s
ucm_li_AS127
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: landscapes (representations)

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