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Title: Landscape for Nakajima
Creator: Yamanaka, Shinten'ō, 1822-1885
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
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 "信天翁獻" (Shinten'ō ken) followed by two seals at upper left edge following inscription. One additional seal at lower right corner of painting and one seal at upper left preceding four-line inscription, which reads: "In my studio I grind the ink until it is fragrant, / And burn an aromatic oil lamp beneath my table. / Trusting my brush to sketch as it will, / I urge on an untrammeled spirit, / Perhaps depicting a flying waterfall, / perhaps creating clouds." (translated by Stephen Addiss)
Medium: Ink on paper
citation: Reproduced in: Stephen Addiss, "Yamanaka Shinten'o: The Albatross of Japanese Painting," Monumenta Nipponica 48:3 (1993).
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, 176 x 64 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb8n39p5n4
ucm_li_AS299
Subject: landscapes (representations)
mountains
Trees

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