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"title": "Ukiyo-e: Floating World",
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"title": "Art in Miniature: Japanese Netsuke from The Toledo Museum of Art",
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"description": "Much smaller in size than standard Japanese folding screens, this lively pair depicts all manner of entertainments. Although at first they seem to show an ongoing festival, closer examination reveals that the screens comprise a series of isolated scenes from disparate occasions. In one screen, crowds gather around a bout of sumo wrestling as well as juggling and balancing acts. Elsewhere, teams of men pull a float bearing musicians costumed in foreign dress. There is also a dance circle with drums, a performing monkey, and a party of falconers. In the other screen, male courtiers observe a game of kickball played by noblemen, while their female counterparts watch from behind bamboo curtains. Others enjoy a theater performance. A children\u2019s dance circle and a dance performance with ladies sporting elaborate headgear occupy the center of the screen. A group wielding huge parasols at the upper left of the screen reenacts episodes from legend, as still other performances, including dancing dogs, entertain the crowds below.",
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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.",
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"citation": "Vilbar, Sin\u00e9ad. \u201cEnhancing East Asia: Experience the Japanese and Korean galleries in new light.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 56, no. 3 (May/June 2016): 23\u201324.",
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