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Title: The clouds recede
Creator: Gion, Nankai, 1677-1751
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 "祇瑜" with one seal at left edge below center. Three-line inscription reads "The clouds recede, the moon appears clear over the river; / Do not wonder that only now can I drink the jade wine. / Light glimmers charmingly over the waters, the long sky is jade-green, / And I stand here on the first storey of the Palace of the Immortals" (trans. Stephen Addiss).
Medium: ink on paper
citation: Reproduced in Stephen Addiss, "Shadows of Emotion: the Calligraphy, Painting and Poetry of Gion Nankai," Kaikodo Journal 9 (1998).
Biography/History: Artist also known as 祇園南海
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; 17 x 18 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
calligraphy
Early to Middle Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb3r29p2qt
ucm_li_AS226
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Moon
Immortality

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