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Title: No Amida in the south
Date Created and/or Issued: [17--]
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 "韓天壽" (Kan Tenju) with one seal at left edge below center. One additional seal at upper right corner. Two-line inscription reads "No Amida in the south / No Amida in the north; / South and North certainly exist / But there's no such thing [as Buddha?]" (trans. Stephen Addiss).
Medium: ink on paper
Biography/History: Artist also known as 中川天寿. Also Kan Tenju.
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; 125 x 21 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
calligraphy
Middle Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb558010qn
ucm_li_AS354
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Amitābha (Buddhist deity)

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