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Title: Poetic couplet
Creator: Shibano, Ritsuzan, 1736-1807
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 "栗山" (Ritsuzan) with two seals at left edge below center. One additional seal at upper right corner. Two-line poetic inscription reads "Hsüeh Fang and Feng Meng cultivated the etiquette of "foreign subjects;" / Yü Chung and Yi Yi fulfilled the vocation of retired scholars" (trans. Stephen Addiss).
Medium: ink on paper
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; 131 x 29 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb3t1nb5k5
ucm_li_AS245
Language: Chinese
chi
Subject: Scholars, Chinese

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