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"description": "Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers, 1700s. Watanabe Shik\u014d (Japanese, 1683-1755). Six-panel folding screen, ink on paper; image: 150 x 356 cm (59 1/16 x 140 3/16 in.); overall: 170 x 376 cm (66 15/16 x 148 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of N. V. Hammer 1968.267",
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"description": "Watanabe Shiko enjoyed a versatile and successful career, as well as a privileged upbringing, in Kyoto. His surviving work indicates a capacity to diligently study, master, and then interpret several painting techniques\u2014each of which varies considerably in appearance. These byobu (folding screens), for instance, reflect training in the Kano school idiom that favored a monochromatic ink palette, vigorous brushwork, and traditional Chinese\u2014rather than Japanese\u2014subject matter. Shiko rendered this scenery in a particularly expansive manner, suggesting the vastness of China's topography relative to Japan's. Frequent visitors to the museum will recall that Shiko also painted the collection's favored pair of byobu, the Irises (CMA 1954.603).",
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