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Title: Pure spirit of antiquity
Alternative Title: 清気萬古
Creator: Yamanaka, Shinten'ō, 1822-1885
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
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 with two seals at upper left corner. One additional seal at upper right of inscription in upper left corner, which reads "Whirling branches of the plum / Cover my hut by the stream; / Opening my Taoist sutra / I must read it three times to understand it" (trans. Stephen Addiss). One additional seal at lower left corner.
Medium: ink on paper
Acquisition: Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art Permanent Collection. Ex Addiss-Seo Nanga Collection. Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Hart Fessenden.
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 54 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Late Edo to Meiji
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb1z09p0vm
ucm_li_2002_155
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Flowering plums

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