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Chinese Poems for the Twelve Months
Gion Nankai (Japanese, 1677–1751)
ca. late 1730s
- Medium
- Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink on paper
- Classification
- Calligraphy
- Dimensions
- Image (each sheet): 50 11/16 × 20 7/8 in. (128.8 × 53 cm) Overall with mounting: 67 9/16 in. × 12 ft. 4 3/8 in. (171.6 × 376.8 cm)
- Culture
- Japan
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asian Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Stephen Addiss, in honor of John T. Carpenter, 2016
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
