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"tombstone": "Love at the Brothel Gate (\u5c4b\u9580\u604b), late 1760s. Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1724\u20131770). Color woodblock print; sheet: 29 x 21.7 cm (11 7/16 x 8 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of J. H. Wade, 1921.349",
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"inscription": "Siganture: Harunobu ga",
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"inscription_translation": "Although I yearn,/ \nI do not speak as days and months,/ \npass by behind my cedar gate./ \nHow can I endure keeping this secret within?",
"inscription_remark": "The poem in the cloud above the figures comes from New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (\u65b0\u53e4\u4eca\u548c\u6b4c\u96c6).",
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"description": "Courtesans were on display to potential clients through bars, an aspect of their jobs that also afforded an opportunity to have socially distanced interactions with fellow entertainment district denizens. Here, a courtesan with a crane motif on her obi sash converses with her lover, a young man carrying a miniature theater. The poem in the cloud above them comes from New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern (\u65b0\u53e4\u4eca\u548c\u6b4c\u96c6) and reads,
Although I yearn,
I do not speak as days and months,
pass by behind my cedar gate.
How can I endure keeping this secret within?",
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