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"title": "Horse Race at the Kamo Shrine",
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"title": "Year in Review, 1976",
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"title": "Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"id": 309312,
"title": "Shinto: Discovering the Divine in Japanese Art \u795e\u9053\uff0d\u65e5\u672c\u7f8e\u8853\u306b\u304a\u3051\u308b\u795e\u6027\u306e\u767a\u898b",
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"description": "Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 121).The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 10-July 16, 2003).",
"opening_date": "2003-03-10T00:00:00"
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"description": "Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 236). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 19-December 24, 2013).",
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"did_you_know": "The winner is decided by the distance between horses, not by which horse finished first.",
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"description": "Here nearly 600 figures, engaged in a bewildering array of activities, have gathered at the Kamo Shrine in Kyoto for the horse race held annually on May 5 since at least the 800s. The entire populace seems to have turned out, apparent in the diversions and revelries spread out across these resplendent by\u00f8bu. The race begins on the right screen and continues far into the left along the lower half of the composition. Here the painter's genius for depicting engaging crowd scenes, a characteristic of Heian pictorial compositions, emerges in full force. The range of textile patterns alone is astonishing. The upper regions of the composition feature the shrine, its setting in northern Kyoto west of Lake Takaragaike, its architecture, and the visitors whose intentions range from casually mundane to spiritual. These paintings were originally part of a much larger pictorial narrative of linked murals in fusuma-e format. Four segments are known today from what must have been an extraordinary room of contiguous surfaces, executed by studio-trained but anonymous masters of yamato-e genre painting in Kyoto. The scale of the paintings and the quality of the materials indicate that they were commissioned by a sophisticated, wealthy patron.",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 253\u2013275, figs. 1, 3, 11-17, 19-20",
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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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"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": "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: p. 212; Reproduced: pp. 214\u2013215",
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"citation": "T\u014dy\u014d kaiga no seika: tokubetsuten: Kur\u012bvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara [\u6771\u6d0b\u7d75\u753b\u306e\u7cbe\u83ef: \u7279\u522b\u5c55: \u30af\u30ea\u30fc\u30f4\u30e9\u30f3\u30c8\u7f8e\u8853\u9928\u306e\u30b3\u30ec\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3\u304b\u3089= Highlights of Asian painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art]. Nara, Japan: Nara National Museum, 1998.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 132\u2013133, cat. no. 87",
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"citation": "Cunningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 28\u201329",
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"citation": "Sakakibara, Satoru. Biombo: Japan heritage as legend of gold. [Japan?]: Nikkei, 2007.",
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"citation": "Filler, Martin. \"The Global Eye of Sherman Lee\": The Magazine Antiques, (October 2008), pp. 122\u2013129.",
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"citation": "Donley, Gregory M. \"North Galleries Preview.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 53, no. 3 (May/June 2013): 11.",
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"citation": "Vilbar, Sine\u0301ad, and Kevin Gray Carr. Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2019.",
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"citation": "Vilbar, Sin\u00e9ad. \u201cTriumphant Returns: Treasured paintings on loan to Japanese museums and archaeological collections go back on display in Cleveland.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 59, no. 1 (January/February 2019): 3, 12\u201313.",
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"citation": "\"Shinto: Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art.\" Asian Art: the Newspaper for Collectors, Dealers, Museums and Galleries 22, i. 5 (May 2019): 8\u20139.",
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