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Title: Courtesan plucking Daruma's beard
Alternative Title: 達磨と美人図
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 "浪花梅林斎雪山写" with two seals "梅林斎" and "雪山," and a painted seal in ink 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: "Return to the Valley: Highlights from the Lee Institute Permanent Collection" rotation 2 curated by Quitman E. Phillips, The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, May 11-June 19, 2004; "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; "Beauties and Beasts: Delightful Dichotomies in Japanese Painting" curated by Sandra Sheckter, The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, Hanford, CA, September 1-November 3, 2001.
Biography/History: Artist also known as 梅林斎雪山; late Edo period artist.
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; 108 x 58 cm.
Form/Genre: Ukiyo-e
Late Edo
hanging scrolls
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb8w1012wq
ucm_li_2000_025
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Courtesans
Bodhidharma, 6th cent.

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