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Title: Wisteria maiden standing on a demon
Alternative Title: 藤娘と鬼図
Creator: Kawanabe, Gyōsai, 1831-1889
Date Created and/or Issued: 1872
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 "應需惺々狂斎" with seal "洞郁" at lower right corner. No inscriptions.
Medium: ink and colors on silk
Exhibitions: Exhibited: "Delightful Pursuits: Highlights from the Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center," curated by Kobayashi Tadashi, organized by The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc., Suntory Museum of Art, Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, Oita Art Museum, The Museum of Art, Ehime, and Chiba City Museum of Art, April 16, 2002-February 2, 2003.
citation: Listed and reproduced in Kobayashi Tadashi and Samuel C. Morse, eds., Delightful Pursuits: Highlights from the Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbun, 2002).
Biography/History: Artist also known as 河鍋暁斎
Acquisition: Acquired in honor of Fred and Joan Baekeland
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, 110 x 35 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Meiji
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb587009dj
ucm_li_2001_003
Subject: Wisteria
Women
Ghouls and ogres
figures (representations)

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