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Poems from Various Subjects of an Autumn Day (Shūjitsu Zatsusei)
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Asia, Japan
Three poems from a series of twelve entitled Various Subjects of an Autumn Day (Shūjitsu Zatsuei 秋日雜詠) written by Chazan in 1804. Seven-character quatrain (shichigonzekku七言絶句). Chazan was from Bingo (Hiroshima) and went to Kyoto to study Chinese poetry and Confucianism. Some regard him as the finest poet in Chinese during the Edo period.
–1960-61 Nakagawa Saihei (Nagoya, Japan), sold to Earl and Virginia Miner (Princeton, NJ)<br> –2003 Earl and Virginia Miner (Princeton, NJ), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2003.<br>
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