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Title: Calligraphy screens
Creator: Kameda, Bōsai, 1752-1826
Date Created and/or Issued: 1818
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: Inscribed across the two screens, "Chang-an: "Ki-yi" / Chang -an's broad avenues link up with narrow lanes, / There black oxen and white horses, coaches of fragrant woods, / Jade-fit palanquins go left and right past the mansions of lords, / Gold riding whips in a long train move toward barons' homes. / Dragons bite jeweled canopies, catching the morning sun, / The phoenix disgorges dangling fringe, draped with evening's red clouds. / A hundred yards of gossamer strands strain to enwrap the trees, / While a single graceful flock of birds join their cries amomg flowers. / Cries among flowers, playful butterflies, by the palace's thousand gates. / The emerald trees, the silver terraces, thousands of different colors. / Double-decked passageways, interwinded windows make the union of lovers. / Paired tower gates, rising layers of tiles which sweep as phoenix wings." (Stephen Addiss, trans.) One seal at right edge of right screen above center. Signed at left edge of left screen followed by two seals.
Medium: ink on paper
Exhibitions: Exhibited: "Script and Image" curated by Elizabeth Beller, The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, Hanford CA., September 2, 2003-November 29, 2003.
Acquisition: Ex Addiss-Seo Nanga Collection.
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: 2 six-fold folding screens; 138 x 313 cm.
Form/Genre: poetry
folding screens
Late Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb5p301175
ucm_li_AS045a,b
Language: Chinese
chi
Subject: Poetry

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