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Title: Two autumn poems
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 "玉蘭" with inscription of two poems reading "The autumn leaves / On Mount Tatsuta / looking like brocade / intensify their colors / in the autumn shower / Perhaps because even the underleaves are colored / the autumn foliage on Mount Tatsuta / is increasingly brilliant / looking like brocade." No seals.
Medium: ink on paper
citation: Reproduced in Patricia Fister, Japanese Women Artists, 1600-1900 (Lawrence, KS: Spencer Museum of Art, 1988).
Biography/History: Artist also known as 池玉瀾. Also known as Ikeno Gyokuran. Female artist; wife of Ike Taiga.
Acquisition: Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art Permanent Collection. Ex Addiss-Seo Nanga Collection. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Vinson.
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, 16 x 40 cm.
Form/Genre: calligraphy
Middle Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb5t1nb720
ucm_li_AS126
Language: Chinese
chi
Subject: Autumn

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