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"tombstone": "Portrait of the Zen Master Hotto Kokushi (right shoe), c. 1286. Japan, Kamakura period (1185\u20131333). Wood with hemp cloth, black lacquer, and iron clamps. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1970.67.c",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1970",
"description": "Year in Review: 1970. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-March 7, 1971).",
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"title": "Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture",
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"title": "Portraiture: The Image of the Individual",
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"title": "Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection",
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"title": "Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009).",
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"title": "Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - July 2017-January 2018",
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"description": "Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 235). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 15, 2013-November 16, 2015).",
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"description": "One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650) from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Japan House Gallery, New York, NY (March 19-May 17, 1981).",
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"description": "My\u014dshinji, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan",
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"description": "(Mayuyama and Company, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"did_you_know": "Two famous sculptural portraits of this monk, one at the temple Ankokuji in Hiroshima, and another at the temple K\u014dkokuji in Wakayama, are dated to 1275 and 1286, respectively.",
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"description": "Hott\u014d Enmy\u014d Kokushi, is a posthumous title bestowed upon the Zen Buddhist monk Shinchi Kakushin (1203\u20131298) by the emperor Go-Daigo. The title means \u201cperfectly awakened national teacher of the Dharma lamp.\u201d Considered a fine example of \u201cKamakura realism,\u201d while downplaying detail in the body, the sculpture emphasizes fidelity in representing the visage of Kakushin.",
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"citation": "Kurata, Osamu \u8535\u7530\u8535 Kumano [\u718a\u91ce]. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1968.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 60, no. 64",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1970.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 58, no. 2 (February 1971): 22\u201371.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: no. 168, p. 72; Reproduced: no. 168, Back Cover",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152361"
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cZen in Art: Art in Zen.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 9 (November 1972): 239\u2013259.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 239, 251, 259, note 16a; Reproduced: pp. 248, 249, figs. 9 and 9a",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152451"
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cNoh: Masks and Robe.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 2 (February 1975): 26\u201335.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 28, fig. 5; Reproduced: p. 29, fig. 5",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152574"
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"citation": "Jenkins, Donald, and Robin Scribnick. Masterworks in Wood: China and Japan: [Exhibition] Portland Art Museum, November 4 Through December 5, 1976, Asia House Gallery, January 13 Through March 20, 1977. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1976.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 44, pp. 8, 9, 91",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cVarieties of Portraiture in Chinese and Japanese Art.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 4 (April 1977): 118\u2013136.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 128\u2013129, fig. 12",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159523"
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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.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 370",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n390"
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"citation": "WVIZ-TV (Television station: Cleveland, Ohio), and Cleveland Museum of Art. The Priest of Myoshinji. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [WVIZ Television], 1978.",
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"url": "https://ingallslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/78406075"
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"citation": "Yamane, Yu\u0304zo\u0304 \u5c71\u6839\u6709\u4e09, Shu\u0304jiro\u0304 Shimada \u5cf6\u7530\u4fee\u4e8c\u90ce, and Terukazu Akiyama \u79cb\u5c71\u5149\u548c. Zaigai Nihon no shiho\u0304 [\u5728\u5916\u65e5\u672c\u306e\u81f3\u5b9d = Japanese Art: Selections from Western Collections, vol. 8 ]. To\u0304kyo\u0304: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1979.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 78, p. 147",
"url": ""
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"citation": "Zenzo Shimizu. \"Japanese Sculptures in America and Canada,\" Ars Buddhica [\u4f5b\u6559\u85dd\u8853], no. 126 (Sept. 1979), part I, pp. 67\u201388.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 73, fig. 24",
"url": ""
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"citation": "Roukes, Nicholas. Masters of Wood Sculpture. New York: Watson-Guptill Publishers, 1980.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 15",
"url": ""
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E., Michael R. Cunningham, and Ursula Korneitchouk. One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue. New York: Japan Society, 1981.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 42\u201343, no. 20",
"url": ""
},
{
"citation": "Roberts, Laurance. \"To See Japanese Art, Go to Tokyo, or Boston, or Baltimore, or Seattle.\" Art News, vol. 80, no. 7 (Sept. 1981).",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 112",
"url": ""
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"citation": "Interpretations: Sixty-Five Works from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991.",
"page_number": "no. 61",
"url": ""
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"citation": "Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 190\u2013191",
"url": ""
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"citation": "May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 15",
"url": ""
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"citation": "Liebson, Milt. Direct Wood Sculpture: Techniques, Innovation, Creativity. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub, 2001.",
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"citation": "Ulak, James, T. \"Uncomfortable Realites: Reflecting on Sherman Lee's Hunches,\" Orientations, vol. 36, no. 1 (Jan/Feb. 2005), pp. 78-79.",
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"citation": "Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 38",
"url": ""
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"citation": "Ulak, James T. \"The Alchemy of Selection: Lee and the Japanese Collection,\" Orientations vol. 40, no. 5 (2009), pp. 41\u201347.",
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"citation": "Franklin, David. The Cleveland Museum of Art - Director's choice. London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd, 2012.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 26\u201327",
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"citation": "\"Reopening of the Asian Galleries at The Cleveland Museum of Art: An Interview with David Franklin.\" Orientations: The Magazine for Collectors and Connoisseurs of Asian Art, vol. 44, no. 8 (November/December 2013): pp. 60\u201363.",
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"citation": "\"A Walking Tour.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 54, no. 1 (January/February 2014): 8\u201333.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2014-01/page/n27/mode/2up"
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum Masters: 2016-17 Companion Guide. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2016.",
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"citation": "Dobbins, James C. Behold the Buddha: Religious Meanings of Japanese Buddhist Icons. Honolulu: University of Hawai\u02bbi Press, 2020.",
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