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Shibata Zeshin Japanese
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The lacquer artist and painter Shibata Zeshin rendered plump bamboo shoots and a single branch of leaves not in traditional ink and mineral pigments but in lacquer (urushi) on paper, using a technique of his own invention.
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Title: Bamboo Shoots
Artist:
Shibata Zeshin (Japanese, 1807–1891)
Period: Meiji period (1868–1912)
Date: ca. 1880s
Culture: Japan
Medium: Album leaf; lacquer on paper
Dimensions: 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (11.4 x 8.9 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936
Object Number: 36.100.126
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