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Title: Landscape with houses in a ravine
Alternative Title: 董法山水図
Creator: Yamamoto, Baiitsu, 1783-1856
Date Created and/or Issued: 1853
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 "七十翁梅逸画" at upper right corner following inscription. Three seals; one at upper right corner preceding inscription and two following signature after inscription. Inscription reads "尽日柴門に客の過ぎる無く・雨余の苔径緑なること羅の如し・山禽睡りを呼びて春幽寂たり・満院の斜陽竹影多し" (At the valley-mouth, my bramble gate is visited by no guest: / after rainfall, fragrant paths have a covering of green. / My mountain lad calls me from sleep, disrupting my tranquil withdrawal: / the whole courtyard is filled with setting sunlight, / among the bamboo shadows. --trans. Jonathan Chaves).
Medium: ink on paper
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 山本梅逸
Acquisition: Acquired with the kind assistance of Carol Brooks and Professor James Cahill in honor of George Schlenker.
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, 174 x 62 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Late Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb9f59p5pn
ucm_li_1996_017
Language: Chinese
chi
Subject: landscapes (representations)
mountains
huts

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