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Title: Boy and ox
Creator: Nankō, Sōgan, 1387-1463, Japanese
Date Created and/or Issued: undated
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: Inscribed "近日官租重民家牛不/肥牧童思軟草＿欲/別村之" "These days the official tax is heavey and men and oxen don't get fat. The herd boy laments and wants to drag the ox to another village." (trans. Yoshi Shimizu) Signed "漁庵題" (Ryōan daisu) with seal at upper left corner.
Acquisition: On long-term loan to the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture
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 scroll painting; 45 x 26 cm.
Form/Genre: scroll paintings
Muromachi
Identifier: ark:/86071/d26m70
CL1978.001
78-3-3
Language: Chinese
chi
Subject: figures (representations)
Animals
Oxen
boys
Rocks
cliffs (natural landscapes)
channels (water body componenets)
bodies of water
inlets
rivers
foothills
mountains
Time Period: Muromachi

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