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Title: Things seen at a river village
Creator: Ichikawa, Kansai, 1749-1820
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 two seals at left edge. One additional seal at upper right corner. Eight-line inscription reads "At the rustic workshop, drunken hands draw mountain-spring water; / The river village harvest marks another year of plenty! / And how does one tell when the three-month spring reaches the garden here? / --When no one asks the price of 'yellow-ear' fungus big as the palm of your hand!" (trans. Stephen Addiss)
Medium: ink on mica paper
Biography/History: Arist also known as 石川梧堂
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 fan painting; 19 x 45 cm.
Form/Genre: fan paintings
calligraphy
Middle to Late Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb1q2nb3hw
ucm_li_AS163
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Spring

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