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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",
"description": "Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009).",
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"title": "Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014).",
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"description": "Japanese Ink Paintings from American Collections: The Muromachi period: An exhibition in honor of Shu\u0304jiro\u0304 Shimada. The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (April 25\u2013June 13, 1976).",
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"did_you_know": "This pair of screens is considered the masterpiece of Sesson's body of work, and may have been created for the lord of Odawara in eastern Japan.",
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"description": "A tiger sits in a bamboo grove whipped with fierce wind, while a dragon claws through clouds above rough waves. Tiger and dragon are Chinese cosmological symbols of the balancing forces in the world, yin (the feminine aspect) and yang (the masculine aspect). The tiger's roar is also said to generate wind, and the dragon clouds. The screens may have originally been meant to express the fluctuating nature of the world as envisioned in the practice of military divination, or forecasting, based on the Yijing (Book of Changes).",
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"citation": "Kakuzo\u0304 Okakura \u5ca1\u5009\u89ba\u4e09 and Mataichi Fukuchi \u798f\u5730\u5fa9\u4e00 . Ko\u0304hon Nihon Teikoku bijutsu ryakushi \u7a3f\u672c\u65e5\u672c\u5e1d\u570b\u7f8e\u8853\u7565\u53f2. To\u0304kyo\u0304: Nihon Bijutsusha, 1908.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Decorative Style. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 50\u201351; cat. no. 47",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/JapaneseDecorativeStyle/page/n63"
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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/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 27, pp. 206\u2013211",
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"citation": "Wilson, J. Keith. \u201cPowerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 8 (October 1990): 286\u2013323.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 304, fig. 22",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161297"
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"citation": "Cunningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.",
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"citation": "Admired from afar: masterworks of Japanese painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art [\u30af\u30ea\u30fc\u30d6\u30e9\u30f3\u30c9\u7f8e\u8853\u9928\u5c55 : \u540d\u753b\u3067\u305f\u3069\u308b\u65e5\u672c\u306e\u7f8e Kur\u012bburando Bijutsukan ten: meiga de tadoru Nihon no bi ]. Tokyo: T\u014dky\u014d Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan, 2014.",
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"citation": "Feltens, Frank, Yukio Lippit, and Aaron M. Rio. Sesson Shu\u0304kei: A Zen Monk-Painter in Medieval Japan. Washington, DC: Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, 2021.",
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