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        "tombstone": "The Saltmaker's Story (\u6587\u6b63\u8349\u5b50), early 1600s. Japan, Edo period (1615\u20131868). Pair of handscrolls; ink, color, and gold on paper; overall: 17.7 x 917.5 cm (6 15/16 x 361 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1972.12",
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        "title": "The Saltmaker's Story",
        "title_in_original_language": "\u6587\u6b63\u8349\u5b50",
        "creation_date": "early 1600s",
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            "Japan, Edo period (1615\u20131868)"
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        "technique": "Pair of handscrolls; ink, color, and gold on paper",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "Japanese Art",
        "collection": "ASIAN - Handscroll",
        "type": "Painting",
        "measurements": "Overall: 17.7 x 917.5 cm (6 15/16 x 361 1/4 in.)",
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                "height": 0.177,
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            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 301752,
                    "title": "Year in Review: 1972",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1972</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).",
                    "opening_date": "1973-02-27T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 301790,
                    "title": "Ukiyo-e: Floating World",
                    "description": "<i>Ukiyo-e: Floating World</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 11-September 2, 1973).",
                    "opening_date": "1973-06-11T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 310026,
                    "title": "Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen",
                    "description": "<i>Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1987-January 10, 1988).",
                    "opening_date": "1987-12-08T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 374889,
                    "title": "Stories in Japanese Art",
                    "description": "<i>Stories in Japanese Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 8, 2021-April 3, 2022).",
                    "opening_date": "2021-10-08T04:00:00"
                }
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        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "(Yanagi Fine Art Shop, Kyoto, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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                "footnotes": [],
                "date": "?\u20131972",
                "sortorder": 1
            },
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "footnotes": [],
                "date": "1972\u2013",
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        "did_you_know": "These handscrolls originally alternated text and painting, but the texts were removed.",
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        "description": "Once read and copied by girls at New Year\u2019s celebrations and included in dowries, <em>The Saltmaker\u2019s Story</em> is a rags-to-riches tale in which daughters are gifts from the gods. Despite his simple outlook, the main character progresses from humble roots as an associate at Kashima Shrine to the elite status of grandfather of the emperor through the intervention of the Kashima deity. <em>The Saltmaker\u2019s Story</em> is traditionally presented in a set of three scrolls, but the text of this set has been removed by a previous owner, who remounted the illustrations as a pair.",
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60472093"
            ],
            "internet_archive": [
                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1972.12-the-saltmaker-s-stor"
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1972.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 60, no. 3, 1973, pp. 63\u2013115.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: no. 281, p. 114",
                "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25093732"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Motherhood across Time</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 6\u20137",
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            }
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        "date_text": "early 1600s",
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        "alternate_titles": [
            "The Saltmaker's Story (Bunsh\u014d Z\u014dshi)"
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        "updated_at": "2026-08-03 14:18:33.380000"
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