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"title": "Sanjo Kantaro II in the Role of Urashima Taro",
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"inscription": "Nihon giga Kaigetsud\u014d Ando kore [o] zu [su]. \n\u3010\u5370\u3011 \u5b89\u5ea6",
"inscription_translation": "Artist's signature: Japanese painting for amusement, this was painted by Kaigetsudo.\nArtist's seal: Ando",
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"inscription": "31-syllable waka poem inscribed on the upper portion of the painting.",
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"title": "Japanese Decorative Style",
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"title": "Ukiyo-e Prints and Paintings: The Primitive Period",
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"title": "Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections",
"description": "Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2004-April 10, 2005).",
"opening_date": "2004-12-12T00:00:00"
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"description": "Japanese Painters of the Floating World: [Exhibition]. Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY (April-June, 1966).",
"opening_date": "1966-04-01T05:00:00Z"
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"description": "Later Japanese Rotation (Gallery 113). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 18-June 8, 2004).",
"opening_date": "2004-02-18T00:00:00"
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"description": "Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 13\u2013November 16, 2015).",
"opening_date": "2015-11-16T00:00:00"
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"description": "(Harry C. Nail [1909\u20131990], El Dorado, Arkansas, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"did_you_know": "The hexagonal design on the actor's robe represents the patterning of a tortoise\u2019s carapace.",
"description": "Sanjo Kantaro II was a Kabuki actor who specialized in playing youths (wakashu) and female roles (onnagata). He is shown here in the role of Urashima Taro. He rescues a tortoise, and as a reward, the tortoise carries him to the undersea palace of the Dragon King. He believes he has spent but three days there with the Dragon King's daughter; however, when he returns to the shore, he finds 300 years have passed. The actor holds a fishing pole, indicating his occupation as a fisherman. The upper portion of the painting contains a 31-syllable waka poem.",
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"citation": "Yoshida, Teruji \u5409\u7530\u668e\u4e8c . Ukiyo-e Taisei \u6d6e\u4e16\u7e6a\u5927\u6210. Vol. 2To\u0304kyo\u0304: \u6771\u65b9\u66f8\u9662, 1931.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 227",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. Japanese Decorative Style. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 100; cat. no. 99",
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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": "Young, Martie W. and Robert J. Smith. Japanese Painters of the Floating World: [Exhibition]. Ithaca, NY: Office of University Publications, Cornell University, 1966.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pl. 19, pp. 18 and 88\u201389",
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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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"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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