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Poem Accompanying an Over Robe (Uchikake) with a Bamboo Painting by Gion Nankai

Rai San’yō

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A scroll of aged paper with a yellow-brown hue. The scroll contains black Chinese calligraphy arranged in columns. The text fills most of the scroll in dense columns. There are 34 lines of text. A small red square seal is in the upper-right corner. The scroll has a thin yellow border along the top and bottom edges. The background behind the scroll is white.

Artwork Details

Date
1824
Medium
Handscroll; ink on silk
Culture
Japan
Dimensions
599 × 388 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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