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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",
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"title": "Clay as Soft Power: Shigaraki Ware in Postwar America and Japan",
"description": "Clay as Soft Power: Shigaraki Ware in Postwar America and Japan. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (organizer) (November 12, 2022-May 7, 2023) https://www.umma.umich.edu/exhibitions/2022/clay-as-soft-power-shigaraki-ware-in-postwar-america-and-japan.",
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"description": "Folk Traditions in Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (September 20-October 29, 1978); Japan House Gallery, New York (November 14, 1978-January 7, 1979); Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, (January 26-March 11, 1979).",
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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": "(Yabumoto S\u014dshir\u014d, Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"did_you_know": "This jar was probably made using a coiling method, where coils of clay are stacked atop each other and smoothed to form its structure.",
"description": "The red color of this jar comes from iron in the clay. Natural ash glaze settled on the vessel during firing. The rim would have been complete with a slightly flared lip. Around the collar is an incised pattern resembling cypress fences, a common scene in the Japanese landscape. Intended for grain storage, rustic vessels like this one were also prized by tea enthusiasts, who appreciated the uncalculated beauty of the glaze and the asymmetry of these humble vessels.",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 268\u2013269, fig. 1",
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cPlanes, Structure, Color, and Content.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 7 (September 1974): 223\u2013239.",
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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.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 139\u2013140, no. 143",
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"citation": "Kiseki no tsuchi: Shigarakiyaki o meguru mittsu no keshiki: Tokubetsuten [\u5947\u8de1\u306e\u571f: \u4fe1\u697d\u713c\u3092\u3081\u3050\u308b\u4e09\u3064\u306e\u666f\u8272: \u7279\u5225\u5c55 = Miraculous Clay: Three Ceramic Landscapes Showcase Shigaraki Ware]. Koka: Shiga kenritsu togei no mori, 2020.",
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"citation": "Oyobe, Natsu, and Kazuko Todate. Clay as Soft Power: Shigaraki Ware in Postware America and Japan. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 2022.",
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"citation": "\"Clay as Soft Power.\" Asian Art: The Newspaper for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries 26, i. 1 (November 2022): 10.",
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