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Title: Growing old
Creator: Kameda, Bōsai, 1752-1826
Date Created and/or Issued: undated
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 "鵬斎老人書" with two seals at lower left corner. One additional seal at upper right corner preceding inscription. Four-line inscription reads "I don't complain that my books and sword are gathering dust;/ I can abandon things of this world as my body grows old. / Planning to go out for a stroll, I cut myself a staff; / In order to live quietly, I search for silk mats. / Cloudy pines and misty bamboo are my guests, / The moon over the mountains and wind on the lake are my hosts. / Do not be surprised by innumerable calamities - / Life right now is the cause of what will come afterwards." (trans. Stephen Addiss)
Medium: ink on paper
citation: 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) and Atsumi Kuniyasu, Kameda Bōsai to Edo Kasei-ki no bunjin-tachi (Tokyo: Geijutsu Shinbunsha, 1995).
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; 136.5 x 32.4 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
calligraphy
Late Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb3n39p1km
ucm_li_AS037
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Poetry

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