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"inscription_translation": "Casually Created on a Spring Day/ The world's fortunes rise and fall, and my heart churns without repose./ I am almost like a fish in a boiling cauldron./ Flowers are red, the willows green; spring is as ever./ I wander through the forest to visit a humble tavern.",
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The world's fortunes rise and fall, and my heart churns without repose.
I am almost like a fish in a boiling cauldron.
Flowers are red, the willows green; spring is as ever.
I wander through the forest to visit a humble tavern.
The person in the scene gazes up at a tree\u2019s branches, a tavern\u2019s banner waving in the distance. After studying with a Confucian scholar in Kyoto, Taiitsu started his own school. His peers considered him eccentric and many accounts of his unusual behavior survive.",
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