inside a wooden box with no inscription on lid; no tissue around outside of scroll; paper under tie and around scroll; dark wooden roller; olive green support fabric with gold accent; image is a cliff with a tree and house at the top with figure at the top of a path leading down; path and tree trunk are red/brown in color; two lines of inscription along LL edge; three red chops, two square chops on the bottom of the inscription and a rectangular one UR corner

Running Water and Plum Blossoms, Ca. 1913–1921

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雲本無心舒 

花絶無草過 
小人求諸奴 
非是佛經法
Clouds, lacking any mind, unfold;
Flowers—utterly nonexistent!—fade.
The petty man seeks truth from slaves:
This is not the dharma of Buddha’s sutras.

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Title
Running Water and Plum Blossoms
Artist Life
1865 - 1944
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2015.111.8
Catalogue Raisonne
Marks 2023, no. 24
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inside a wooden box with no inscription on lid; no tissue around outside of scroll; paper under tie and around scroll; dark wooden roller; olive green support fabric with gold accent; image is a cliff with a tree and house at the top with figure at the top of a path leading down; path and tree trunk are red/brown in color; two lines of inscription along LL edge; three red chops, two square chops on the bottom of the inscription and a rectangular one UR corner