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Title: Amid the mountains quatrains
Creator: Yamanaka, Shinten'ō, 1822-1885
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
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 "信天翁" (Shinten'ō) with two seals at left edge center. One additional seal at upper right corner. Three-line inscription reads "Over vast expanses, the wild waves surge; / blue-green clouds, how many layers thick? / Here in the mountains, few carriages or men; / all day I spend caressing these hoary dragons" (trans. Stephen Addiss).
Medium: ink on paper
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; 134 x 51 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
calligraphy
Meiji
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb3s20095k
ucm_li_AS296
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: mountains
Dragons

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