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Title: Ayu (Sweetfish)
Alternative Title: 登り鮎図
Creator: Koizumi, Ayaru, 1766?-1854
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 "檀山老人小泉斐" followed by two seals at upper right edge. No inscriptions.
Medium: ink and colors on silk
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).
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; "Feats and Tales: Images of Animals in Japanese Art" curated by Adam Zollinger, Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, May 1-June 30, 2001.
Biography/History: Artist also known as Koizumi Danzan; 小泉斐 also 檀山.
Acquisition: 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; 107 x 36 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Late Edo
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb896nb8th
ucm_li_SC1981_005
Subject: Fishes

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