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Title: T'ao Yuan-ming and his stringless qin
Creator: Minagawa, Kien, 1734-1807
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 "筇斎写" (Kyōsai sha) followed by two seals "皆川愿印" (Minagawa Gen in) and "伯恭氏" No inscriptions.
Medium: Ink on paper
citation: Reproduced in Stephen Addiss, Kenneth J. DeWoskin, and Mitchell Clark, The Resonance of the Qin in East Asian Art (New York: China Institute Gallery, 1999).
Biography/History: Artist also known as 皆川淇園
Acquisition: Addiss-Seo Nanga Collection; On long-term loan to the Lee Institute
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, 28 x 24 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Edo (Japanese period)
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb609nb73k
ucm_li_AS168
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Poets
qin (long zithers)

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