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Title: Ashura
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954
Publication Information: Japan
Contributing Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
Collection: Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture collection
Rights Information: Copyrighted
Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Rights Holder and Contact: Yoshida, Hodaka, 1926-1995, Japanese
Description: Annotations/Markings: One seal at lower left corner. Signed "Hodaka Yoshida 1954" in bottom margin at right. Titled "Ashura" in pencil in bottom margin at left.
Medium: Colors on paper
Exhibitions: Exhibited: "Japan & Beyond: The Yoshida Family Legacy in Japanese Woodblock Prints" rotation 1, curated by Kendall Brown and Quyen Le, The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art, Hanford, CA. December 2, 2003-January 31, 2004.
Acquisition: Lee Institute Permanent Collection; Gift of Mr. H. Ed Robison, in memory of his beloved wife Ulrike Pietzner Robison
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 woodcut, 38 x 25 cm
Form/Genre: color woodcuts
Showa
shin hanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb196nb4cp
ucm_li_2003_186
Subject: Ásuras (Hindu deities)

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