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Title: White-robed Kannon
Creator: Totoki, Baigai, 1749-1804
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: Annotations/Markings: Signed with seal at right edge below center. No inscriptions.
Medium: ink on paper
Biography/History: Artist also known as 十時梅厓
Biography/History: Attribution only. As the signature of this painting is questionable and the subject matter unusual for painters of the bunjin style, we can only attribute the work to Totoki Baigai (1749-1804). Buddhist iconography was not part of the normal repertoire of Japanese literati artists.
Acquisition: Addiss-Seo Nanga Collection. On long-term loan to the Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art.
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 hanging scroll, 43 x 22 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb138nb3q2
ucm_li_AS008
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Avalokitešvara (Buddhist deity)
landscapes (representations)

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