Bamboo (pair with 1986/1.167.2) / Tomioka Tessai

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Accession Number: 1986/1.167.1
Title: Bamboo (pair with 1986/1.167.2)
Artist: Tomioka Tessai
Artist Nationality: Japanese
Artist Life Dates: 1836-1924
Medium and Support: ink on paper
Object Creation Date: circa 1865-1875
Credit Line: Museum purchase made possible by the Friends of the Museum of Art
Style/Group/Movement: literati
Inscription: Signature and seal
Period: Japan, Late Edo (1615–1867) to early Meiji period (1867–1912)
Dimensions: 133.3 cm x 13.3 cm (52 1/2 in. x 5 1/4 in.)
Century: 19th century
Physical Description: Long, thing hanging scroll with a black/grey ink painting on a gold cloth backing. Writing is in the upper left side of the painting. The painting itself depicts stalks of bamboo.
Subject Matter: Stalks of bamboo, painted to accompany the secondary calligraphy scroll which loosely means that a house without bamboo is not worth living in.
Primary Keywords: bamboo; calligraphy
Secondary Keywords: genres; plants; the natural world
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 301 x 1483
File Size: 50 KB
Record: 1986/1.167.1
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1986-sl-1.167.1/1986_1.167.1.jpg

In public portfolios: Ink and realisms (392); Landscape and nature - comparative and historical (353)

Manifest: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/musart:1986-SL-1.167.1:1986_1.167.1.JPG

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Full citation: "Bamboo (pair with 1986/1.167.2); Tomioka Tessai." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1986-sl-1.167.1/1986_1.167.1.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.