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Title: The temporary palace at Yoshino
Creator: Murase, Taiitsu, 1803-1881
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 "太乙老人" (Taiitsu rōjin) with two seals at left edge above center. One additional seal at upper right corner preceding two-line inscription that reads "The Imperial carriage travels like Ming-huang's flight to Shu; / At first, who could have known the treachery of Lu-shan? / Life in the capital was like a dream, moving south like waking; / He had not protected the people, but only his lover" (trans. Stephen Addiss).
Medium: ink on paper
citation: Reproduced in Stephen Addiss, A Japanese Eccentric: The Three Arts of Murase Taiitsu (New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1979).
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; 112 x 29 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
calligraphy
Late Edo
Meiji
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb9199p5kg
ucm_li_AS338
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: Tang Xuanzong, Emperor of China, 685-762
Yang, gui fei, 719-756
Godaigo, Emperor of Japan, 1288-1339

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