Image / Lady inscribing a banana leaf, after Tang Yin

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Title: Lady inscribing a banana leaf, after Tang Yin
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: No signature. One seal "Hayashi Rōen-in" (painted by Hayashi Rōen) at lower left corner and a second at upper left corner preceding inscription. Two more painted copies of seals of Tang Yin following copied signature of Tang Yin at upper left following inscription.
Medium: Ink and colors on silk
Exhibitions: Exhibited: "The Japanese Journey: 'Traveling Images' of Edo Period Japan" curated by Catherine David, The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, Hanford, CA, June 4-September 28, 2002; "Woman as Art/Woman as Artist: Two sides to the female figure in later Japanese painting" curated by Maiko Behr, The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, Hanford, CA, September 6-December 3, 2005.
Biography/History: Artist also known as 林閬苑. An eccentric Edo period artist who studied with Fukuhara Gogaku.
Acquisition: Acquired with the kind assistance of Carol Brooks and Professor James Cahill in honor of George Schlenker.
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, 102 x 47 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Late Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb6x0nb7xw
ucm_li_2002_108
Language: Chinese
chi
Subject: Women

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