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"title": "Scenes from the Tales of Ise",
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"measurements": "Painting only: 95.2 x 276 cm (37 1/2 x 108 11/16 in.); Overall: 109.3 x 258.9 cm (43 1/16 x 101 15/16 in.)",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1969",
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"title": "Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen",
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{
"id": 357862,
"title": "Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation",
"description": "Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 24-October 11, 2020).",
"opening_date": "2020-01-24T05:00:00"
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"description": "(Elm and Company, Osaka, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"did_you_know": "Scenes appear amid golden clouds augmented by raised designs formed of a pigment made from crushed shells (gofun). The technique is called moriage, literally \u201cmounding\u201d the pigment.",
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"description": "While the 11th century Tale of Genji is universally regarded as Japan's literary masterpiece, the source for visual imagery in Japanese culture is rivaled by another literary classic, the Tales of Ise. A 10th century anthology of poems interspersed with commentary, the Ise portrays the emotional and geographical journey of a courtier from the capital (Kyoto) into the countryside and beyond. The poems describe features of the natural, untamed terrain, linking them to the rather melancholy state of the traveler.
Since the Tales of Ise was\u2014and remains today\u2014well read by educated Japanese, a person viewing these folding screens would immediately recognize its subject, organized as a series of discrete scenes read from right to left. Neither a signature nor a seal identifies the artist, but judging from related paintings, the work can be ascribed to an artist working in Kyoto during the first quarter of the 17th century in the manner of the painter Iwasa Matabei (1578\u20131650). This type of historical narrative composition became quite popular around 1600 among patrons favoring a distinctly Japanese style of painting which employed rich mineral pigments and a liberal use of gold.",
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"citation": "Kita, Sanoy. \u201cAn Illustration of the Ise Monogatari: Matabei and the Two Worlds of Ukiyo.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 7 (September 1984): 252\u2013267.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 252-253, 261, fig. 1, pl. II",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159874"
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"citation": "T\u014dy\u014d kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kur\u012bvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [\u6771\u6d0b\u7d75\u753b\u306e\u7cbe\u83ef : \u7279\u522b\u5c55 : \u30af\u30ea\u30fc\u30f4\u30e9\u30f3\u30c8\u7f8e\u8853\u9928\u306e\u30b3\u30ec\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u304b\u3089 = Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pp 130-131, cat. no. 86",
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"citation": "Cuningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.",
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