(カワダ調べ)
common rue (Ruta graveolens)
I could not read the calligraphy at all when I went to the Shokokuji exhibition at the Geidai Art Museum.
It might be easier to remember it as Nara if I saw the calligraphy.
It comes from a mountain called "Shinomine" in Gosho City, Nara Prefecture.
The label is seal script (tensho). It is one of the oldest typefaces of Chinese characters and refers to the general name for the typefaces before the clerical script.
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