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Title
Clouds shield the layered cliffs
Creator
Uragami, Gyokudō, 1745-1820
Totoki, Baigai, 1749-1804
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: Inscribed "層厓雲隔" with signature "玉堂" and seal of Gyokudō at upper right corner. Also inscribed in upper left quadrant "竹外桃花 / 三両枝蔞 / 蒿満地 / 蘆芽 / 短正是 / 河豚 / 欲上時" (Beyond the bamboo and the / two or three sprigs of peach blossoms / artemesia covers the ground / and short reeds spring forth. / This is the time when the blowfish appears. -- trans. Stephen Addiss) with the attribution XXXXXX "蘇東坡" (Su Shi) and signed "梅厓書" with one seal preceding inscription and one seal following signature at left edge.
Medium: ink on silk
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); Stephen Addiss, Tall Mountains and Flowing Waters: The Arts of Uragami Gyokudo (Honolulu: University of Hawai'I Press, 1987).
Biography/History: Artist also known as 浦上玉堂. Edo period artist.
Biography/History: Artist also known as 十時梅厓
Acquisition: Addiss-Seo Nanga Collection; on long-term loan to the Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art.
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, 18 x 24 cm.
Form/Genre
hanging scrolls
calligraphy
Late Edo
Nanga
Identifier
ark:/13030/hb7p3011wm
ucm_li_AS122
Language
Chinese
chi
Subject
landscapes (representations)
mountains
Spring

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