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"title": "Tsukasa and Other Courtesans of the Ogiya Watching the Autumn Moon Rise Over Rice Fields from a Balcony in the Yoshiwara",
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"inscription": "Signature: Sori aratame Hokusai ga",
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"title": "Art of the Surimono",
"description": "Art of the Surimono. Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (organizer) (February 25-March 25, 1979).",
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"title": "The View from Afar: Whistler and the Japanese Print",
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"description": "Ukiyo-e: The Floating World Revisited. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 2-April 3, 1994).",
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"description": "Later Japanese Art Gallery Rotation (Gallery 113). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 20-May 6, 2003).",
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"description": "Gomeir\u014d is another name for the fashionable teahouse \u014cgi-ya (House of Fans) in the Yoshiwara district of Edo (present-day Tokyo). Two courtesans, each attended by a geisha and a shinz\u014d (apprentice to a courtesan) view a full autumn moon as it rises over the surrounding paddy fields. The elegance of the women's flowing robes and the serenity of the evening with a full silver moon contribute to the poetic atmosphere of this surimono, a privately commissioned print usually accompanied by text\u2014here, a poem, which reads:
What liveliness! Geisha, shinz\u014d, and jesters
fill the room, all guests of the moon.",
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"citation": "Bowie, Theodore Robert, James T. Kenney, and Fumiko Togasaki. Art of the Surimono: [Exhibition], Indiana University Art Museum, February 25-March 25, 1979. Bloomington, IN: The Museum, 1979.",
"page_number": "cat. no. 100",
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},
{
"citation": "Basch, Sophie. Le Japonisme, Un Art Franc\u0327ais. \u0152uvres En Socie\u0301te\u0301s. Dijon: Les Presses du re\u0301el, 2022.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 45, fig. 20",
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