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"tombstone": "Aizen My\u014d\u014d (\u611b\u67d3\u660e\u738b\u50cf), early 1300s. Japan, Kamakura period (1185\u20131333). Wood with black lacquer and red pigments; overall: 75 x 59 x 35 cm (29 1/2 x 23 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Elizabeth M. Skala, 1987.185",
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"title": "Aizen My\u014d\u014d",
"title_in_original_language": "\u611b\u67d3\u660e\u738b\u50cf",
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"id": 310231,
"title": "The Year in Review for 1987",
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"opening_date": "1988-02-24T05:00:00"
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"title": "Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - January-July 2017",
"description": "Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - January-July 2017. The Cleveland Museum of Art (January 9-July 10, 2017).",
"opening_date": "2017-01-09T05:00:00"
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"id": 295705,
"title": "Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - July 2017-January 2018",
"description": "Japanese Gallery 235 Rotation - July 2017-January 2018. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 15, 2017-January 2, 2018).",
"opening_date": "2017-07-15T04:00:00"
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"id": 450073,
"title": "Modern Japan",
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"opening_date": "2022-10-14T04:00:00"
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"id": 455863,
"title": "Animals in Japanese Art",
"description": "Animals in Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 24-December 10, 2023).",
"opening_date": "2023-06-24T04:00:00"
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"description": "Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 235). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 9, 2013-November 16, 2015).",
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"description": "Yamaoka, Kyoto, Japan",
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"description": "(London Gallery Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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"description": "The Buddhist deity Aizen My\u014d\u014d channels carnal desire into a lust for spiritual enlightenment. In its principal right arm, this figure once held a vajra, a symbolic weapon used to cut through illusion, while its main left arm still grasps the vajra bell rung to bring one to awareness. The lion\u2019s head in Aizen\u2019s hair holds its mouth open to devour thoughts and desires. Holes along the front of the legs show where the sculpture\u2019s base would have been attached.",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1987.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 2 (February 1988): 30\u201371.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: no. 207, p. 71; Reproduced: no. 207, p. 50",
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"citation": "Cunningham, Michael R. \"Fierce Salvation: Comments on a Recently Acquired Japanese Sculpture.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 4 (April 1993): 140\u2013143.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 141\u2013142; Mentioned: pp. 140\u2013143",
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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 and Reproduced: pp. 198\u2013199",
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"citation": "Grossman, Nancy, James T. Ulak, Marjorie Williams, and Laurence Channing. Art of Japan: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005.",
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