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Title: The courtesan Takao with bush clover
Creator: Suzuki, Kiitsu, 1796-1858
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 "菁々其一" with seal at lower right corner. No inscriptions.
Medium: colors on silk
Exhibitions: Exhibited: "The Decorative Painting Style in Later Japanese Painting," University of California, Berkeley, September 15-January 16, 1983.
Biography/History: Artist also known as 鈴木其一
Acquisition: Clark Family 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, 104 x 36 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Late Edo
Sotatsu-Korin School
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb9779p6wx
ucm_li_CL1982_001
Subject: figures (representations)
Courtesans
Moon
Autumn
flowers (plants)

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