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Title: Scenes of Ōtsu
Alternative Title: 大津八丁往来図屏風
Creator: Ki, Baitei, 1734-1810
Date Created and/or Issued: 1790
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 "庚戌仲夏寫　梅亭" (painted in the Fifth Month of Kansei 2 (1790) by Baitei) with two seals at upper right corner.
Medium: Ink and light colors on paper
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).
Exhibitions: Exhibited: "Return to the Valley: Highlights from the Lee Institute Permanent Collection" rotation 2 curated by Quitman E. Phillips, The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, May 11-June 19, 2004; "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; "Unfolding the Edo Spirit: a Special Exhibition of Folding Screens" rotation 1 curated by Sandra Sheckter, Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, November 6-30, 2001; "Nanga: Art of the Japanese Literati from the 18th & 19th Centuries" curated by Maiko Behr, Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, November 7, 2000-February 3, 2001.
Biography/History: Artist also known as 紀梅亭
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 eight-fold folding screen; 90 x 376 cm.
Form/Genre: folding screens
Middle Edo
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb129007fj
ucm_li_1995_015
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: genre
figures (representations)

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