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Title: Pine and poem gifts
Creator: Yamanaka, Shinten'ō, 1822-1885
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
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 (2 paintings); 61 x 61cm.-72 x 64 cm. The upper half is signed "信天翁" with three seals at left edge. One additional seal at upper right corner preceding four-line inscription, which reads "Ten thousand miles of sky open over the vast waters, / Clouds and mist boil up over this isle of the immortals; / While a man gathering fungus of the immortals leans on a tall pine, / White cranes sing in the rising sun" (trans. Stephen Addiss). The lower half is signed "信天翁題" with two seals following one-line inscription at upper right corner. One additional seal at upper right corner. One additional seal at lower left corner. ink and colors on crepe paper
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Late Edo to Meiji
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb1489p11f
ucm_li_AS291
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Pine
Fungi

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