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"did_you_know": "We know the original scroll had ten bulls because a copy of the complete scroll exists.",
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"description": "Across the world, animals once played a much larger role in the transportation of the elite. Members of Japan\u2019s imperial court traveled in vehicles pulled by oxen until the late 1400s, when oxcarts were restricted to ceremonial use. One sign of the past importance of the ox as a status symbol survives in this fragment from a scroll of portraits of 10 speedy bulls. The painter layered washes containing differing ratios of black ink to water to create a three-dimensional effect.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n394"
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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.",
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"citation": "Mayuyama, Junkichi \u7e6d\u5c71\u9806\u5409. Bijutsusho\u0304 no yorokobi [\u7f8e\u8853\u5546\u306e\u3088\u308d\u3053\u3073 The Joys of an Art Dealer]. Tokyo, Japan: Mayuyama Junkichi, 1988.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 89-99, pl. 35",
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"citation": "Kita, Sandy. \u201cThe Bulls of Ch\u014dmy\u014dji: A Joint Work by S\u014dtatsu and Mitsuhiro.\u201d Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 47, no. 4, 1992, pp. 495\u2013519.",
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