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        "tombstone": "Letter from Bokusai to Monk Kesso, 1400s. Motsurin J\u014dt\u014d (Japanese, d. 1492). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; image: 24.7 x 42 cm (9 3/4 x 16 9/16 in.); overall: 110.8 x 60.7 cm (43 5/8 x 23 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Alan Carter Covell and Kyu J. Pak-Covell in honor of Dr. Jon Carter Covell, 1991.33",
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        "title": "Letter from Bokusai to Monk Kesso",
        "creation_date": "1400s",
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        "creation_date_latest": 1492,
        "artists_tags": [
            "male"
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        "culture": [
            "Japan, Muromachi period (1392\u20131573)"
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        "technique": "hanging scroll; ink on paper",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "Japanese Art",
        "collection": "ASIAN - Hanging scroll",
        "type": "Calligraphy",
        "measurements": "Image: 24.7 x 42 cm (9 3/4 x 16 9/16 in.); Overall: 110.8 x 60.7 cm (43 5/8 x 23 7/8 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "image": {
                "height": 0.247,
                "height_inch": 9,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.75,
                "width": 0.42,
                "width_inch": 16,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.5625
            },
            "overall": {
                "height": 1.108,
                "height_inch": 43,
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        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
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        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Alan Carter Covell and Kyu J. Pak-Covell, California, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "?\u20131991",
                "sortorder": 1
            },
            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1991\u2013",
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        "early_education_description": null,
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        "description": "The Zen monk-painter Bokusai resided at the influential Daitoku-ji temple in Kyoto. His portrayals of Zen patriarchs are among the most dynamic representations of their kind in the history of Japanese ink painting. There was a variety of surface damage that marred the letter: lifting, tears, discoloration, and poorly executed repairs done at the time the previous owners remounted the piece. This recent restoration corrects those trouble spots, strengthens the backing paper supports, and introduces a more appropriate combination of textile materials for such a distinguished artifact left by an eminent Zen monk-painter of the 1400s.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79945056"
            ],
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        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cSelected 1991 Acquisitions.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 79, no. 2 (February 1992): 63\u201383.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 83, no. 178",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161350"
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        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.33",
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        "creditline": "Gift of Alan Carter Covell and Kyu J. Pak-Covell in honor of Dr. Jon Carter Covell",
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                "description": "Motsurin J\u014dt\u014d (Japanese, d. 1492)",
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                "qualifier": null,
                "role": "artist",
                "biography": null,
                "name_in_original_language": "\u6ca1\u502b \u7d39\u7b49",
                "death_year": "1492",
                "use_in_caption": true,
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                "weight": 1
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "1991-03-27T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1400,
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        "date_text": "1400s",
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        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
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        "alternate_titles": [],
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-29 08:06:49.183000"
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