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Title: Kite and two crows
Alternative Title: 柳蔭鳶烏図
Creator: Yosa, Buson, 1716-1784
Date Created and/or Issued: [not after 1770]
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 "謝春星三菓亭中" with two seals "三菓堂図画印" and "潑墨生痕" at lower left edge. No inscriptions.
Medium: ink and light colors on silk
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.
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).
Biography/History: Artist also known as 与謝蕪村
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, 115 x 44 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Middle Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb9m3nb93d
ucm_li_CL1993_004
Subject: Birds

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