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Title: Poem in cursive script
Creator: Niwa, Shaan, 1742-1786
Date Created and/or Issued: [17--]
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. Two seals at left edge below center. Five-line inscription reads "Living in this world is like a great dream, / Why should I labor my whole life long? / Therefore I spend the day drinking / And, dejected, sleep by the front door. / Waking, I look around the courtyard, / And see a bird singing among the flowers. / I ask what season could this be? / Spring wind is conversing with the flying orioles. / Reflecting, I am on the verge of sighing, / Drinking wine, I turn back to myself / And sing until the bright moon rises; / When the song is over, I have forgotten my melancholy." (trans. Stephen Addiss)
Medium: ink on paper
Biography/History: Artist also known as 丹羽謝庵
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, 133 x 58 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
calligraphy
Middle Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb909nb9d4
ucm_li_AS152
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Poetry
scripts (writing)

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