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Title: Best season for the mountains
Creator: Okada, Hankō, 1782-1846, Japanese
Date Created and/or Issued: 1840 winter
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: Inscription reads "An old man visiting his friend's house in the mountains, pauses to admire the surrounding scenery upon hearing the murmuring of the stream from a small bridge." Dated "庚子" and signed "半江田粛" followed by two seals at upper left corner.
Acquisition: Gift of the Peter F. Drucker Family
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; 129 x 179 cm.
Form/Genre: scroll paintings
Late Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/86071/d2th99
2006.053
DL2006.043
Language: Chinese
chi
Subject: Seasons,natural landscapes
natural landscapes
mountains
peaks (landform components)
Trees
Water currents
waterfalls
bridges
Grasses
Vegetation
figures (representations)
Time Period: Late Edo, Nanga

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