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Title: 七福神図
Alternative Title: Seven lucky gods
Creator: Kanzaka, Sekka
Date Created and/or Issued: [19--]
Publication Information: Japan
Contributing Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
Collection: Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture collection
Rights Information: Copyrighted
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Rights Holder and Contact: Kanzaka, Sekka, 1866-1942, Japanese
Description: Annotations/Markings: No signature. Seal "雪佳" 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 神坂雪佳. Better known as Kamisaka, Sekka, 1866-1942. See Kamisaka Sekka: Rimpa Master--Pioneer of Modern Design, exh. cat. Birmingham Museum of Art and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. 2003.
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 49 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Taisho to Showa
Sotatsu-Korin School
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb996nc03j
ucm_li_1997_006
Subject: Gods, Japanese
Seven gods of fortune
Ebisu (Japanese deity)
Daikokuten (Japanese deity)

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