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"title": "Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"id": 311658,
"title": "Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation",
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"id": 689048,
"title": "The K\u014drin School: The Irises and Ogata K\u014drin\u2019s Followers",
"description": "The K\u014drin School: The Irises and Ogata K\u014drin\u2019s Followers. Nezu Museum, Tokyo, Japan (organizer) (April 11-May 10, 2026).",
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"description": "The subject of this painting comes from a 10th-century text. It tells of a young nobleman\u2019s journey into the lonely countryside, far from the capital city of Heian-ky\u014d (Kyoto). There he came upon a small stream, the banks of which were covered with blooming irises, on which the artist has chosen to focus our attention. While viewing the beautiful flowers the nobleman composed a poem:
I have a beloved wife,
Familiar as the skirt of a well-worn robe,
And so this distant journeying
Fills my heart with grief. ",
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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": "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": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cIn Memoriam: Emery May Holden Norweb, 1895-1984.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 4 (April 1984): 130\u2013131.",
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"citation": "Kanda, Christine Guth. \u201cWatanabe Shik\u014d\u2019s Irises.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 7 (September 1984): 240\u2013251.",
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"citation": "Vilbar, Sin\u00e9ad. \u201cTriumphant Returns: Treasured paintings on loan to Japanese museums and archaeological collections go back on display in Cleveland.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 59, no. 1 (January/February 2019): 12-13.",
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