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Title: Wine and fish
Creator: Okada, Beisanjin, 1744-1820
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 "米山人" with one seal at lower left corner. Five-line inscription reads "How enviable! Who pays him any heed, / Pillowed on the stream in his hidden dwelling? / If only T'ien Ch'un were here with him, / He'd pour out wine, and catch a few fish to eat!" (trans. Stephen Addiss)
Medium: ink on paper
Acquisition: Addiss-Seo Nanga Collection. Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Richard Dickes, 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 fan painting, 19 x 47 cm.
Form/Genre: fan paintings
calligraphy
poetry
Middle to Late Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb5p30116n
ucm_li_AS034
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Hermits

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