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"inscription": "signed middle right edge: \"Shugetsu hitsu.\" One seal which reads \"Nihon satsuyo shakushi Tokan.\"",
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"title": "\u8336\u306e\u7f8e\u8853 : \u7279\u5225\u5c55 (Art of the Tea Ceremony)",
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"title": "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum",
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"title": "Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).",
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"id": 220265,
"title": "Sesshu, Master of Ink and Brush: 500th Anniversary Exhibition",
"description": "Sesshu, Master of Ink and Brush: 500th Anniversary Exhibition. Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan (March 12-April 7, 2002).",
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"id": 196054,
"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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"description": "One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650) from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Japan House Gallery, New York, NY (March 25-May 17, 1981).",
"opening_date": "1981-03-25T00:00:00"
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"description": "Main Asian Rotation (G121). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 26, 2003-March 12, 2004).",
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"description": "This vague but energetically rendered landscape highlights the brush: the messenger for a moment\u2019s emotional or spiritual state. The painting represents one of many subjects and styles Shugetsu studied and absorbed from the great practitioners of Ming-dynasty China in the late 1400s and early 1500s. The technique of \"flung ink,\" or haboku, disguises purposeful composition as an almost random, distracted series of brushstrokes. Close inspection reveals tonalities and strokes brushed onto a soft, absorbent paper in a range from heavy and wet to crisp ink charges. Not surprisingly, amateur and professional Zen monk-painters favored this \"impressionistic\" style as an exercise in seeing meaningful detail slowly emerge from what at first seems unclear.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"The Year in Review for 1976.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 2 (1977): 39-78.",
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"citation": "Sesshu\u0304. Sesshu\u0304: botsugo 500-nen tokubetsuten = Sesshu, master of ink and brush : 500th anniversary exhibition. [Tokyo]: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 2002.",
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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.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n396"
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"citation": "Cunningham, Michael R. \u201cSh\u016bgetsu and Sixteenth-Century Japanese Painting.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 4 (April 1981): 120\u2013130.",
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