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Title: Cowardly Tengu
Creator: Nakabayashi, Chikutō, 1776-1853
Date Created and/or Issued: 1817
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 "Shugu" with three seals "XX", "Shugu", and "Chikuto" in upper left corner. Inscribed "In the mid-summer of 1817 a group of crazy fools traveled to Daihikaku in Arashiyama. one of us fools looked out over the cliff but dared not jump, so I painted this picture to present to him" (translated by Stephen Addiss).
Medium: Ink and colors on paper
Exhibitions: Exhibited: "Drawn from Literature: Narrative Traditions in Japanese Art" curated by Cordula Treimer, The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, Hanford, CA, March 29-July 30, 2005; "Echoes of the Heart: An Exhibition of Japanese Literati Painting and Poetry" curated by Seunghye Sun, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, April 22-August 1, 2002, and Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, January 2-March 30, 2002.
citation: Reproduced in Stephen Addiss, Japanese Ghosts and Demons: Art of the Supernatural (New York: George Braziller, 1985).
Biography/History: Artist also known as 中林竹洞
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, 122 x 31 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Late Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb9v19p7b2
ucm_li_AS072
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Tengu
cliffs
mountains
landscapes (representations)

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