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Materials:

ink on paper

Size Notes:

each

Description:

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Markings:

Signed Kaioku sei, sealed Bokurin, Hochikujo (or Hochikushi) sha and Ware sono sei o aisu, dated 1839 spring

Exhibited:

Masters of Japanese Calligraphy: 8th-19th Century," at the Japan House Gallery and the Asia Society Galleries, New York Oct. 4, 1984-Jan. 6, 1985; at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Feb. 15-March 31, 1985; and at the Seattle Art Museum, May 9-July 14, 1985

Literature:

John M. Rosenfield with Fumiko E. Cranston, Extraordinary Persons: Works by Eccentric, Nonconformist Japanese Artists of the Early Modern Era (1580-1868) in the Collection of Kimiko and John Powers , Vol. 2, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1999), pp. 206-08, no. 173. Yoshiaki Shimizu and John M. Rosenfield, Masters of Japanese Calligraphy: 8th-19th Century , exh. cat., (New York: Asia Society and Japan Society, 1984), no.133