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Title: Rooster
Creator: Sō, Shiseki, 1715?-1786, Japanese
Date Created and/or Issued: 1778
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: Signed "宗紫石寫時年六十有四" (Sō Shiseki utsusu, age 64) followed by two seals at center left edge. One additional seal at lower left corner.
Acquisition: On long-term loan to the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture
Exhibitions: Exhibited: "The Decorative Style in Later Japanese Painting", University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, Sept. 15, 1982-Jan. 16, 1983; "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: 1 scroll painting; 110 x 39 cm.
Form/Genre: scroll paintings
Middle Edo
Nagasaki
Identifier: ark:/86071/d2xb03
CL1978.005
78-10-3
Subject: Roosters
Birds
Trees
vegetation (natural landscape)
Plants

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