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Title: Orchid and poetic couplet
Creator: Totoki, Baigai, 1749-1804
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: Signed "梅厓" with seal at left of center. Four-line inscription in bottom half at center. One additional seal precedes inscription.
Medium: ink on paper
Biography/History: Artist also known as 十時梅厓
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 45 cm.
Form/Genre: fan paintings
calligraphy
poetry
Late Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb1n39p0dx
ucm_li_AS009
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Orchids

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