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Title: Landscape in the manner of Ni Tsan
Alternative Title: Landscape in the manner of Ni Zan
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 "信天翁画題" with two seals following three-line inscription at upper left corner. Inscription reads "My painting originally had no sect or doctrine, I just rely on mountains and rivers for my brush and ink, clouds and mist for tones and shadings, so wherever I go to sketch, I have many teachers" (trans. Stephen Addiss).
Medium: ink on satin
citation: Reproduced in Stephen Addiss, "Yamanaka Shinten'o: The Albatross of Japanese Painting," Monumenta Nipponica 48:3 (1993).
Acquisition: Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art Permanent Collection. Ex Addiss-Seo Nanga Collection. Gift of Mr. Terry Welch.
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; 131 x 41 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Late Edo to Meiji
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb8q2nb9n1
ucm_li_2002_156
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: landscapes (representations)
mountains
huts
rivers

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