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Title: My natural place
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 "太乙老人併＿" (Taiitsu rōjin) with two seals at left edge above center. Inscription through top left quadrant reads "All the methods that restrict man don't apply to me; / What you see in this painting is my natural place. / Where peaks and ridges pull back, there is some elbow room, / Pale ink penetrates the forest and distant mountains emerge" (translated by Stephen Addiss). One additional seal at right edge center.
Medium: Ink on mica paper
citation: "Reproduced in Stephen Addiss, The Three Arts of Murase Taiitsu (New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1979); Patricia
Acquisition: Addiss-Seo Nanga Collection. On long-term loan to the Lee Institute
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 fan painting, 21 x 53 cm.
Form/Genre: fan paintings
Late Edo to Meiji
Nanga
Identifier: ark:/13030/hb9m3nb96z
ucm_li_AS340
Language: Japanese
jpn
Subject: landscapes (representations)
mountains

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