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Title: White tigers
Alternative Title: 白虎図
Creator: Gantai, 1782-1865, Japanese
Date Created and/or Issued: 1851
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: Medium: Ink on paper
Annotations/Markings: (right panel) Dated "嘉永辛亥一陽" and signed ""筑前介岸岱" followed by two seals at lower right corner. One additional seal "同功館"at upper left corner. (left panel) Signed "同功館岸岱" followed by two seals. One additional seal at upper right corner, reads "I saw a stone at top of Mt. Fuji with a white tiger on it."
Acquisition: On long-term loan to the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture.
Exhibitions: Exhibited: "Feats and Tales: Images of Animals in Japanese Art" curated by Adam Zollinger, Ruth and Sherman Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture for Japanese Art, May 1-June 30, 2001.
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: 2 six-fold screen paintings; 166 x 365 cm. ea.
Form/Genre: screen paintings
Late Edo
Kishi School
Identifier: ark:/86071/d23h71
CL1993.005a
93-5-2
Subject: Animals
Tigers
Trees
mountains
Vegetation
Time Period: Late Edo, Kishi School

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