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Title: The American ship: waka poem
Creator: Fukuda, Haritsu, 1865-1944
Date Created and/or Issued: undated
Contributing Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
Collection: Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture collection
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Rights Holder and Contact: Fukuda, Haritsu, 1865-1944, Japanese
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, 136 x 31 cm. Signed with no seals. Inscription is a waka poem, reading "The lighthouse / at Ki no kuni's / Shihonomisaki Cape / is brilliantly lit / for the American ship" (trans. Stephen Addiss). ink on paper
Form/Genre: calligraphy
hanging scrolls
poetry
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb1h4nb47x
ucm_li_AS194
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: lighthouses

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