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Title: Sudden snow dances in the whirlwind
Date Created and/or Issued: 1875
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: Two-line inscription "Agitated clouds descend at dusk, / Sudden snow dances in the whirlwind. - Spring 1875, from Tu Fu's poetic idea, at Suisekido" (translated by Stephen Addiss) followed by signature and two seals at upper right corner.
Medium: Ink on paper
Exhibitions: Exhibited: "Inhabited/Uninhabited: Intimacy and Exuberance in Japanese Landscape Painting" curated by Elizabeth Sharf, Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, November 30, 2004-March 26, 2005. "Nanga: Art of the Japanese Literati from the 18th & 19th Centuries" curated by Maiko Behr, Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, November 7, 2000–February 3, 2001.
Biography/History: Artist also known as 安田老山
Acquisition: Addiss-Seo Nanga Collection; on long-term loan to the Lee Institute.
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, 174 x 68 cm.
Form/Genre: Meiji
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb1r29p15f
ucm_li_AS247
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Winter
Snow
mountains
landscapes (representations)

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