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Title: 美人競艶図
Alternative Title: Set of five bijin-ga
Creator: Yamaguchi, Soken, 1759-1818
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, seals, or inscriptions on paintings. Box inscriptions reads "美人六幅＿山口素絢画."
Medium: ink and colors on paper
Exhibitions: Exhibited: "Delightful Pursuits: Highlights from the Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center," curated by Kobayashi Tadashi, organized by The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc., Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Oita Art Museum, The Museum of Art, Ehime, and Chiba City Museum of Art, April 16, 2002-February 2, 2003.
citation: Listed and reproduced in Kobayashi Tadashi and Samuel C. Morse, eds., Delightful Pursuits: Highlights from the Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 2002).
Biography/History: Artist also known as 山口素絢.
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: 5 hanging scrolls, 179 x 93 cm. each
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
pentaptychs
Late Edo
Ukiyo-e
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb7c6011hz
ucm_li_2001_014a,b,c,d,e
Subject: figures (representations)
genre
Women

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