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"inscription_translation": "The full blooming cherry/ \nis not the only flower worth mentioning./ \nThe color of the young plum tree/ \nblooms as well.",
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"title": "A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection",
"description": "A Private World: Japanese and Chinese Art from the Kelvin Smith Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 14-November 13, 1988).",
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"title": "Visions of Japan: Prints and Paintings from Cleveland Collections",
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"title": "Japan\u2019s Floating World \u65e5\u672c\u306e\u6d6e\u4e16",
"description": "Japan\u2019s Floating World \u65e5\u672c\u306e\u6d6e\u4e16. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 8-October 9, 2022).",
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"description": "Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH (June 3, 2016\u2013January 10, 2017).",
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"description": "(Felice Fedder Oriental Art, Inc., New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kelvin Smith)",
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"did_you_know": "The handsome youth in the painting is accompanied by a boy carrying a plum branch.",
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"description": "Many ukiyo-e paintings and prints focus on bijin (\u7f8e\u4eba), or \u201cbeautiful people.\u201d Female courtesans and entertainers were the main draw in the pleasure district of Edo (now Tokyo), but young men were also available. The poem here reads as follows: \"The full blooming cherry / is not the only flower worth mentioning. / The color of the young plum tree / blooms as well.\"
The full blooming cherry is a metaphor for mature women, and the plum for young men.",
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"citation": "Jenkins, Donald. \u201cPaintings of the Floating World.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 75, no. 7 (September 1988): 244\u2013260, 262\u2013278, 238.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 9, color plate 1, pp. 255\u2013257",
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"citation": "\u201cChecklist of the Kelvin Smith Bequest.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 7 (September 1988): 292\u2013295.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 294",
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"citation": "Jenkins, Donald, and Lynn Jacobsen-Katsumoto. The Floating World Revisited. Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1993.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: cat. no. IV-4, pp. 196\u2013197",
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"citation": "Vilbar, Sin\u00e9ad. \"Enhancing East Asia: Experience the Japanese and Korean Galleries in a New Light.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine, vol. 56, no. 3, May/June 2016, 22\u201323.",
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