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        "accession_number": "1969.250",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Early Winter in the Mountains, 1947. Kihei Sasajima (Japanese, 1906\u20131994). Woodcut. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Morris in memory of her son, Frank S. Morris, 1969.250",
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        "title": "Early Winter in the Mountains",
        "creation_date": "1947",
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        "department": "Prints",
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 301313,
                    "title": "Year in Review: 1969",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1969</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).",
                    "opening_date": "1970-01-27T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 310104,
                    "title": "A Tradition Transformed: Japanese Prints, 1947-1987",
                    "description": "<i>A Tradition Transformed: Japanese Prints, 1947-1987</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 24, 1988).",
                    "opening_date": "1988-02-09T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 188290,
                    "title": "East Meets West:  Tradition and Innovation in Modern Japanese Prints",
                    "description": "<i>East Meets West:  Tradition and Innovation in Modern Japanese Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 19-May 28, 2000).",
                    "opening_date": "2000-03-19T00:00:00"
                }
            ],
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                {
                    "description": "CMA 1970:  \"Year in Review for 1969,\" cat., Bull, LVII (January 1970), p. 49, no. 186.",
                    "opening_date": "1970-01-01T00:00:00"
                },
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                    "description": "Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; March 19 - May 28, 2000.  \"East Meets West:  Tradition and Innovation in Modern Japanese Prints.\"",
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        "description": "Sasajima was introduced to printmaking by Hiratsuka and studied with Munakata, both masters of the black-and-white woodcut (whose works are on view in this exhibition). Rather than trying to convey realistic perspective in his imagery, Sasajima experimented with the translation of the two-dimensional quality of calligraphy into woodcut.",
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        "creditline": "Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Morris in memory of her son, Frank S. Morris",
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                "description": "Kihei Sasajima (Japanese, 1906\u20131994)",
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        "accession_date": "1969-12-13T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1942,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "1947",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:50:32.152000"
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