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Title: Portrait of Tao Yuan-ming
Creator: Nakabayashi, Chikutō, 1776-1853, Japanese
Nukina, Kaioku, 1778-1863, Japanese
Date Created and/or Issued: 1858 spring
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 and colors on silk
Annotations/Markings: Dated "戊牛之維莫之春" and signed "須静堂" (by Nukina, Kaioku) followed by two seals. One additional seal at upper right corner preceding four-line inscription of a poem by T'ao Yuan-ming, reads "Within my humble door / there is a qin and books; / I play and sing in verse, / and so take my pleasure. / Although I have other interests, / I find the greatest joy from living in retirement. / In the morning I water the garden, / And in the evening I sleep in my thatched cottage." (trans. Stephen Addiss) Signed "竹洞山人寫" (by Nakabayashi, Chikutō) followed by two seals "成昌之印" and "竹洞自作" at lower left corner.
Acquisition: On long-term loan to the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture
Citation/Reference: Reproduced in Stephen Addiss, Kenneth J. DeWoskin, and Mitchell Clark, The Resonance of the Qin in East Asian Art. NY: China Institute Gallery, 1999; Patricia Fister and Kurt Gitter. Japanese Fan Paintings from Western Collections. New Orleans Museum of Art, 1985
Exhibitions: Exhibited: "Echoes of the Heart: An Exhibition of Japanese Literati Painting and Poetry" curated by Seunghye Sun, Ruth and Sherman Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture for Japanese Art, January 2-March 30, 2002.
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; 115 x 42 cm.
Form/Genre: scroll paintings
Late Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/86071/d2k12n
AS 071
Language: Chinese
chi
Subject: Tao
Yu'an-ming 372?-427
Portraits
Calligraphy
Calligraphy - Japanese
figures (representations)
old age
Old man
Older people
costume (mode of fashion)
Time Period: Late Edo, Nanga

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