Image / Portrait of an Ainu man

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Title: Portrait of an Ainu man
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: Copyrighted
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Description: Medium: Ink and colors on silk
Annotations/Markings: No signature or inscriptions. One seal at lower right corner.
Acquisition: On long-term loan to the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture
Exhibitions: Exhibited: "Depth and Diversification: New Acquisitions from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture Permanent Collection" Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture for Japanese Art, Sept. 7-Nov. 13, 2004.
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; 169 x 85 cm.
Form/Genre: scroll paintings
Meiji to Taisho
Identifier: ark:/86071/d2pf0z
CF2003.228
Subject: men
elderly
Bowls (tableware)
drums (membranophones)
Baskets (containers)
smallswords
costume (mode of fashion)
kimonos
figures (representations)
Ainu
Time Period: Meiji to Taisho

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