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"tombstone": "The Snowy Garden, 1854. Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese, 1797\u20131858), and Utagawa Kunisada (Japanese, 1786\u20131865). Triptych of color woodblock prints, ink and color on paper; sheet: 35.6 x 75 cm (14 x 29 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of James Parmelee, 1940.989",
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"title": "The Snowy Garden",
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"inscription": "Artists' Signatures: Toyokuni ga (right and left panel); sekkei oju Hiroshige hitsu (center panel).\nArtist's Seal: Ichiyrusai (center panel).",
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"inscription_remark": "The word sekkei before Hiroshige's signature means \"the snow view.\"",
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"inscription": "Publisher: Moriya Jisuke (Moriji, Ba 2, emblem).\nCensorship seal: aratame.",
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"id": 295386,
"title": "Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation",
"description": "Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (March 27-July 10, 2017).",
"opening_date": "2017-03-27T04:00:00"
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"description": "Later Japanese Art Rotation (Gallery 113). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 4, 2003-March 18, 2004).",
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"description": "James Parmelee [1855\u20131931], Cleveland, OH and Washington, DC, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"date": "?\u20131940",
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"description": "These prints depict an episode from A Rustic Genji, a Japanese graphic novel based on the 11th-century classic The Tale of Genji. Three maidservants are making a giant snow rabbit while the protagonist of A Rustic Genji, Ashikaga Jiro Mitsuuji, stands in the snow with a woman who is possibly his lover. Stylistic hallmarks tell us that Utagawa Kunisada was responsible for the figures and the giant snow rabbit and Utagawa Hiroshige designed the background landscape. This collaboration\u2014both artists signed the prints\u2014on a Genji-related work targeted a broader audience by capitalizing on each artist\u2019s individual strengths.",
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"citation": "Milliken, William M., Henry S. Francis, Howard Hollis, Gertrude Underhill, Silvia A. Wunderlich, and Nell G. Sill. \u201cThe Bequest of James Parmelee.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 28, no. 2 (February 1941): 15\u201331.",
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"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140904"
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"citation": "Baatsch, Henri-Alexis, and Hiroshige And\u014d. Hiroshige. London: Thames & Hudson, 2025.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 212\u2013213; Mentioned: p. 222",
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"updated_at": "2026-05-29 06:12:41.232000"
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