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"title": "Processional Mask of a Bodhisattva",
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"title": "35th Anniversary Exhibition",
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"description": "Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 237). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 10, 2013-November 17, 2015).",
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"date": "?\u20131950",
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"did_you_know": "The most famous welcoming descent procession happens each year on April 14 at the temple Taimadera in Nara.",
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"description": "This ceremonial mask was used in a dramatic enactment of the descent of the Buddha Amida and his entourage to welcome the dying to his Pure Land. The mask represents the face of an enlightened being called a bodhisattva. Performances of the welcoming descent had begun by the early 11th century and continue at some temples today.",
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"citation": "Milliken, William M. \u201cImportant Acquisitions of Japanese Art.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 38, no. 9 (November 1951), pp. 211\u2013217.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 212, 217; Reproduced: [no page number, after p. 212]",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"citation": "Mayuyama, Junkichi \u7e6d\u5c71\u9806\u5409. Japanese Art in the West. [Tokyo]: Mayuyama & Co, 1966.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 343; Reproduced: p. 35, pl. 42",
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"citation": "Rosenfield, John M. Japanese Arts of the Heian Period, 794-1185. New York: Asia Society, 1967.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 274",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n298"
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cNoh: Masks and Robe.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 2 (February 1975): 26\u201335.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 27\u201328, fig. 2",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"citation": "Yamane, Yu\u0304zo\u0304 \u5c71\u6839\u6709\u4e09, Shu\u0304jiro\u0304 Shimada \u5cf6\u7530\u4fee\u4e8c\u90ce, and Terukazu Akiyama \u79cb\u5c71\u5149\u548c. Zaigai Nihon no shiho\u0304 [\u5728\u5916\u65e5\u672c\u306e\u81f3\u5b9d = Japanese art: selections from western collections]. To\u0304kyo\u0304: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1978.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: vol. 8, no. 97, p. 156; Reproduced: color pl. 97",
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"citation": "Shimizu Zenz\u014d, \"Japanese Sculptures in America and Canada,\" Bukkyo\u0304 geijutsu [\u4f5b\u6559\u85dd\u8853= Ars Buddhica] , no. 126 (September 1979), part I, pp. 67\u201388.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 74, fig. 27",
"url": ""
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"citation": "Tanabe, Saburo\u0304suke \u7530\u8fba\u4e09\u90ce\u52a9. Gyo\u0304do\u0304men to shishigashira \u884c\u9053\u9762\u3068\u7345\u5b50\u982d. To\u0304kyo\u0304: \u81f3\u6587\u5802, Sh\u014dwa \u662d\u548c56 (1981).",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 63, fig. 126",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E., Michael R. Cunningham, and Ursula Korneitchouk. One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue. New York: Japan Society, 1981.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 24\u201325, no. 8",
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"citation": "Hempel, Rose. The Golden Age of Japan, 794-1192. Translated by Katherine Watson. New York: Rizzoli, 1983.",
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"citation": "Vilbar, Sin\u00e9ad. \"The Japanese Art Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1915-1951.\" In Great Waves & Mountains: Perspectives and Discoveries in Collecting the Arts of Japan. Natsu Oyobe, and Allysa B. Peyton, eds., 160\u2013197. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2022.",
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