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Title: 阿婆牛背図
Alternative Title: Old woman and ox
Creator: Okada, Beisanjin, 1744-1820
Date Created and/or Issued: 1813
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: Inscribed and signed "The blood of the lovely concubine dripped on Ma-Wei slope; / Chao-chun, full of resentment, was sent across the border. / How can they compare with this old hag, / Firmly seated on the back of an ox, singing a song of peace. - Poem by Shen Chou, the painting also in his manner, 2nd month of autumn 1813, 70-year-old Beisanjin" followed by two seals starting in upper right corner and filling upper half of painting. One additional seal at lower left corner.
Medium: ink 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).
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, 102 x 34 cm.
Form/Genre: hanging scrolls
Late Edo
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb9m3nb95f
ucm_li_AS033
Language: Chinese
chi
Subject: figures (representations)
Animals
Oxen
Women
Poetry
Shen, Zhou, 1427-1509

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