Image / Copy of Chinzan's "Peach blossoms from the mountain of the immortals"

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Title: Copy of Chinzan's "Peach blossoms from the mountain of the immortals"
Creator: Kokubu, Bun'yū, 1823-1900, Japanese
Date Created and/or Issued: 1852
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: Medium: Ink and colors on sketch paper
Annotations/Markings: Inscribed "仙山蟠桃", "嘉永壬子大呂寫椿山弼" at right edge below center. Recto: Inscribed "椿山先生蟠桃図", signed " 文友筆" and dated "壬子" with seal at upper left corner.
Acquisition: Gift of Stephen Addiss and Audrey Seo
Biography/History: Kokubu Bun’yo (1823-1900) was not only a painter but a participant in government activities during the Meiji Restoration. Kokubu trained under Matsumura Keibun and is a member of the Shijo school, named for the street Shijo (Fourth Avenue) in Kyoto where it was located. Shijo painters are known for their application of realism and certain western painting techniques.
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 scroll painting; 119 x 37 cm.
Form/Genre: scroll paintings
Shijo copy of Nanga style
Identifier: ark:/86071/d2k72q
2001.032
AS 048
Subject: Flowering trees
Vegetation
Plants (vegetation)
Peach
Grasses
Rocks

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