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        "title": "The Minister Toru Daijin Standing by a Lake Beneath a Crescent Moon, from the series A True Mirror of Chinese and Japanese Poetry",
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        "measurements": "Overall: 52 x 23 cm (20 1/2 x 9 1/16 in.)",
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                "inscription": "Signature: Zen Hokusai Iitsu hitsu.\nPublisher: Moriya Jisuke (emblem).\nCensorship Seal: kiwame.",
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                "date": "?\u20131916",
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        "description": "A high-ranking minister, Toru (822\u2013895) was the son of an emperor. In this scene, he enjoys the company of two other men in his landscape garden overlooking the water. Here Hokusai may have illustrated a poem by Toru that mentions boats floating on the water in bright moonlight, shaded by the pines.",
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                "citation": "Thompson, Barbara. <em>The International Block Print Renaissance Then and Now: Block Prints in Wichita, Kansas, a Centennial Celebration, 1922-2022.</em> [Wichita, Kansas]: Wichita Art Museum, 2021.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 245",
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