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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1969.59", "current_location": null, "title": "Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Europeans", "title_in_original_language": "\u8494\u7d75\u5357\u86ee\u4eba\u56f3\u786f\u7bb1", "creation_date": "1800s", "creation_date_earliest": 1800, "creation_date_latest": 1899, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Japan, Edo period (1615\u20131868)"], "technique": "lacquered wood with gold maki-e, silver inlay and red lacquer on black ground", "support_materials": [], "department": "Japanese Art", "collection": "Japanese Art", "type": "Lacquer", "measurements": "23 x 20.2 cm (9 1/16 x 7 15/16 in.)", "dimensions": {"No Extent Specified": {"height": 0.23, "height_inch": 9, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0625, "width": 0.202, "width_inch": 7, "width_inch_fraction": 0.9375}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 301313, "title": "Year in Review: 1969", "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1969</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).", "opening_date": "1970-01-27T05:00:00"}, {"id": 310241, "title": "Autumn Grasses: Arts of the Momoyama Period (1573-1615)", "description": "<i>Autumn Grasses: Arts of the Momoyama Period (1573-1615)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4-December 11, 1988).", "opening_date": "1988-10-04T04:00:00"}, {"id": 185596, "title": "Unfolding Beauty:  Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art", "description": "<i>Unfolding Beauty:  Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001).", "opening_date": "2001-07-15T00:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "(Robert Rousset [1901\u20131982], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20131965", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1965\u2013", "sortorder": 2}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The Japanese term <em>nanban</em> \u5357\u86ee is used to describe designs like the one on this box.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The two people on the left of this box lid's design are Portuguese traders, identifiable by their balloon-shaped pants. Facing them is a Jesuit priest in a long robe. Portuguese ships arrived in Japan in the 1540s. 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