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Title: Scholar's rock, orchids, and fruit
Creator: Hirano, Gogaku, 1809-1893
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: Signed following inscription along full length of right edge. "Misty, hazy, dawn comes to the village; / Chatter, chatter, morning market starts! / A gentle breeze sways willows at the gateway; / Early sunlight climbs plums by the eaves. / Within the four seas, new auspiciousness awaited! / The threefold capital recovers from old disaster. / Stabilized, the turbulence of foreign barbarians; / From distant places, treasures offered in tribute. / So busy! We laugh at those hurrying birds. / So loud! We love the flashing lightning. / Heaven now expunges the darkly brooding; / Man begins to gaze up at vast sky. / In the garden out back, they gather oranges, / Along the stream in front, pluck the purple moss. / At the southern window, we invite guests to drink / Under clear skies, snowlight glittering deep in our cups" (trans. Stephen Addiss). One seal at upper right corner, two seals right of center following signature, one seal at lower left corner.
Medium: ink and colors on silk
citation: Reproduced in "Japanese Literati Artists of the Meiji Period" in Essays on Japanese Art Presented to Jack Hillier, Matthi Forrer, ed. (London: Robert G. Sawers, 1982).
Acquisition: Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art Permanent Collection. Ex Addiss-Seo Nanga Collection.
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, 147 x 49 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Late Edo to Meiji
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb100006s4
ucm_li_AS109
Subject: rock
Orchids
Baskets

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