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        "title": "Bishamonten Ritual Mirror",
        "title_in_original_language": "\u6bd8\u6c99\u9580\u5929\u93e1\u50cf",
        "creation_date": "1000s\u20131100s",
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            "Japan, Heian period (794\u20131185)"
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        "department": "Japanese Art",
        "collection": "Japanese Art",
        "type": "Metalwork",
        "measurements": "Diameter: 15.3 cm (6 in.)",
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                {
                    "id": 302666,
                    "title": "Year in Review: 1977",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1977</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978).",
                    "opening_date": "1977-12-28T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 309838,
                    "title": "Mirrors: Art and Symbol",
                    "description": "<i>Mirrors: Art and Symbol</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 3-November 18, 1984).",
                    "opening_date": "1984-07-03T04:00:00"
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                "description": "H. Minkenhof",
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                "description": "(Shunichi Yabumoto Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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        "did_you_know": "Bishamonten sits on a demon who struggles beneath his weight.",
        "description": "Bishamonten, the Buddhist guardian of the North, appears here with an entourage. Early votive mirrors like this one are called <em>ky\u014dz\u014d</em>, literally \u201cmirrors with images.\u201d One theory is that they appeared along with the development of Shinto-Buddhist combinatory thought, in which specific Buddhist deities were identified with specific kami, or Shinto deities. In this theory, sacred mirrors venerated as proxies for kami came to be incised with images of Buddhist deities. Another idea is that they developed in the context of Esoteric Buddhist ritual.",
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                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1977.32-bishamonten-ritual-m"
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                "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1977.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 65, no. 1 (1978): 2\u201342.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: no. 148, p. 36; Mentioned: no. 148, p. 43",
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