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Title: Hell awaiting bad Buddhists
Alternative Title: 地獄図
Date Created and/or Issued: 1819
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 "Bunsei kibō nen shoka, Kanō Dōhaku Norinobu ga" at upper right followed by one seal. No inscriptions.
Medium: Ink and colors on silk
Exhibitions: Exhibited: "The Japanese Journey: 'Traveling Images' of Edo Period Japan" curated by Catherine David, The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, Hanford, CA, June 4-September 28, 2002.
Biography/History: Artist also known as 狩野洞白(陳信)
Acquisition: Clark Family 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, 148 x 88 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Middle Edo
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb2z09p1jr
ucm_li_CL1990_007
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Hell--Buddhism, [Christianity, etc.]

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