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Title: Long life
Creator: Kameda, Bōsai, 1752-1826
Date Created and/or Issued: 1823
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 "To say that others / should reach the same age would be / quite presumptuous— / nevertheless, this year / I have become seventy-two!" (trans. Stephen Addiss). Signed "鵬斎老人書" with two seals at lower left corner.
Medium: ink on silk
Exhibitions: Exhibited: "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.
citation: Cited and reproduced in Stephen Addiss, The World of Kameda Bōsai: The Calligraphy, Poetry, Painting and Artistic Circle of a Japanese Literatus (New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art; University Press of Kansas, 1984).
Acquisition: Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art Permanent Collection. Ex Addiss-Seo Nanga Collection. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Don Simon.
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, 60 x 65 cm.
Form/Genre: calligraphy
Edo (Japanese period)
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb2p3008xh
ucm_li_AS039
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Poetry

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