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Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1982.","citation":"Suzuki, Kei, comp.<i> Chūgoku kaiga sōgō zuroku</i>, vol. 1 of <i>Amerika-Kanada hen</i>. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1982., p. 148, pl. A17–091","date":1982,"id":8082,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/638830092"},{"boilertext":"Wen C. Fong, <i>Images of the mind: selections from the Edward L. Elliott family and John B. Elliott collections of Chinese calligraphy and painting at the Art Museum, Princeton University</i>, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1984).","citation":"Wen C. Fong, <i>Images of the mind: selections from the Edward L. Elliott family and John B. 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Beginning on the right and moving leftward, ghostly soldiers tame snakes and a tiger before a  seated figure dressed as a court official. This is Erlang Shen, the god of hunting, who was credited with defeating the vicious, flood-causing dragon and other demonic creatures on Mount Guankou. Other scenes illustrate soldiers battling demonic creatures, she-demons with monkey bodies, and a host of other fiendish beasts that populate the mountain forest.\n","remarks":"ASIA2_14_CLA  Day 1 Cataloguing"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"John B. Elliott, Class of 1951 (1928–1997); given to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1982.","remarks":null}],"datebegin":1475,"sortnumber":"1982   97y","published_date":"2026-02-11 10:30:57.881041","objectid":32686,"dimensions":"Painting: 48.4 x 935.9 cm. (19 1/16 x 368 7/16 in.)\r\nPainting (Frontispiece): 49.7 x 117.0 cm. (19 9/16 x 46 1/16 in.)\r\nColophon: 48.7 x 98.3 cm. (19 3/16 x 38 11/16 in.)\r\nmount: 49.8 cm. 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