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"inscription_translation": "Prefatory seal: True Eye of the Law and poem: Journeying amid mountain and forest astride an ox [moving at a] gentle gait, [he] met the renowned minister Jiang. [The sound of] knocking against the horns pierced the cloud and entered the sacred image, [making] the stone man clap and [Mt.] Sumeru dance; followed by date (written on a spring day in 1687) and calligrapher's signature (Respectfully inscribed, Nanyuan of Fu Tang [Fujian province, China]) and seals (upper: seal of Xingpai, lower: Nanyuan) stretch across top of painting. Painter's signature (brushed by Baian Sekkei) and seals (upper: Baian, lower: Sekkei) appear at bottom left of painting. Poem translated by Liu Bo with Wang Xingyi, signatory inscription deciphered by Guangzhou Jia, additional assistance with seals provided by Wu Jiang and Harald Conrad, 2023",
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"title": "Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting",
"description": "Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 1, 1985-February 24, 1986).",
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"title": "Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen",
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"did_you_know": "The \u014cbaku lineage of the Zen school of Buddhism in Japan is named for Mount Huangbo (Japanese: \u014cbaku) in China.",
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"description": "The inscription at the top of this painting was brushed by \u014cbaku school monk Nanyuan Xingpai (Japanese: Nangen Sh\u014dha), a Chinese Buddhist monk who emigrated to Japan in 1654, while the painting was done in ink by Yamaguchi Sekkei, a Japanese painter active in Kyoto who was known for his Buddhist subjects, many of which remain in temples today. The figure here reads a text while riding backward upon a water buffalo. Sekkei's painting depicts the Chinese monk Weizheng (986\u20131049), also known as \"Zheng of the Yellow Ox\" after his favored mount. Nanyuan's inscription is a poem about the monk.",
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"citation": "So\u0306n, Su\u0306ng-hye. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.",
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