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Title: Farewell poem
Creator: Kameda, Bōsai, 1752-1826
Date Created and/or Issued: undated
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: Inscribed "You left your homeland in your youth— / Now, ready to return, you are already an old man. / A guest in a lonely boat, you have dreamed / Of the rivers and mountains east of the ocean. / A great tortoise dives, shaking the banks at the shore, / Dragons battle in the distant sky. / You have learned the Chinese language; / When you return, who will understand you? —Written for a Korean visitor named Park by the Chinese scholar Ku Fei-hsiung" (trans. Stephen Addiss). Signed "鵬斎書" with seal "鵬斎" at left edge.
Medium: ink on wave-decorated paper
citation: Cited and reproduced in Stephen Addiss, The World of Kameda Bōsai: The Calligraphy, Poetry, Painting and Artistic Circle of a Japanese Literatus (New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art; University Press of Kansas, 1984).
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 fan painting, 17 x 46 cm.
Form/Genre: fan paintings
Edo (Japanese period)
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb138nb3s3
ucm_li_AS044
Language: Chinese
chi
Subject: Poetry

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