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Title: Calligraphy in Taiga style
Creator: Fūgai, 1779-1847
Date Created and/or Issued: 1839
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 and dated "Anxiously having summoned the god / to give him to drink / of “upper-pond” water / Pien Ch’ueh has come again / to cure me of my ill / Do not wonder that in mid-winter / here in this hidden valley / The Mountain Spirit conjures in profusion / the songs of orioles! —Summer 1839, to cure the pain of my boils" (trans. Stephen Addiss). Signed "風外写" with two seals at lower left corner.
Medium: ink on paper
Acquisition: Addiss-Seo Nanga Collection; on long-term loan to the Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art.
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, 114 x 41 cm.
Form/Genre: calligraphy
Late Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb1r29p13d
ucm_li_AS087
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Poetry
Bianque, fl. ca. 255 B.C.

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