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"title": "The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art",
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"title": "Japan\u2019s Floating World \u65e5\u672c\u306e\u6d6e\u4e16",
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"description": "The design on this writing box shows a courtesan who has just completed an impressive feat of spitting the term shinobukoi (\u5fcd\u604b), which could be translated as \u201chidden love\u201d or \u201cunrequited love,\u201d on an earthen wall. The phrase appeared in classical Japanese poetry anthologies produced by nobles writing in ink on the finest decorated papers. Here, the confining walls of the brothel district become a space for public announcement in graffiti, with the medium being perhaps tea.",
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