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Title: Scenery of Matsushima
Alternative Title: 松島図
Creator: Tani, Bunchō, 1763-1840 or 1
Date Created and/or Issued: 1826
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: Dated and signed "Bunsei 9 nen hei jutsu satsuki Sakurada Tansai gakun no shoku ni ōjite sha su / Bunchō" with seal "Tani Bunchō no in" at left edge.
Medium: ink and colors on silk
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 谷文晁; artist's dates according to other sources: 1763-1840.
Acquisition: Clark Family Collection; on long-term loan to the Lee Institute.
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, 83 x 115 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Late Edo
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb129007b0
ucm_li_CL1993_007
Subject: landscapes (representations)
Pine

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