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        "accession_number": "2011.16",
        "share_license_status": "Copyrighted",
        "tombstone": "Storing Life (\u8caf\u5875), 1979. Aoyama Sanu (Japanese, 1912\u20131993). Ink on paper; image: 43 x 68.5 cm (16 15/16 x 26 15/16 in.); framed: 57 x 83 cm (22 7/16 x 32 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Aoyama Keiji, 2011.16",
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        "title": "Storing Life",
        "title_in_original_language": "\u8caf\u5875",
        "creation_date": "1979",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1979,
        "creation_date_latest": 1979,
        "artists_tags": [
            "male",
            "Asian (from 1900 to present)"
        ],
        "culture": [
            "Japan, Sh\u014dwa period (1926\u201389)"
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        "technique": "ink on paper",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "Japanese Art",
        "collection": "ASIAN - Handscroll",
        "type": "Calligraphy",
        "measurements": "Image: 43 x 68.5 cm (16 15/16 x 26 15/16 in.); Framed: 57 x 83 cm (22 7/16 x 32 11/16 in.)",
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            "image": {
                "height": 0.43,
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                "height": 0.57,
                "width": 0.83
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        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
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        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 197104,
                    "title": "The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art",
                    "description": "<i>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).",
                    "opening_date": "2011-03-27T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 666805,
                    "title": "Contemporary Calligraphy and Clay",
                    "description": "<i>Contemporary Calligraphy and Clay</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7, 2024-June 15, 2025).",
                    "opening_date": "2024-06-07T04:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": []
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Aoyama family collection, Tokyo, Japan, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1979\u20132024",
                "sortorder": 1
            },
            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "2024\u2013",
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        "did_you_know": "Fascicle 94 of the <em>Commentary on the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra</em> contains a phrase noting that dust piled up will become a mountain.",
        "description": "Read from right to left, the two characters in this calligraphy translate to \u201cstoring up dust\u201d (<em>chojin</em>). The word used for dust appears in Buddhist sacred texts, where it can refer to everyday life. Aoyama Sanu\u2019s phrase means to contemplate the moments making up an ordinary existence. It prompts meditation on dust, and invites the viewer to consider the endlessly shifting nature of the materials that constitute our lives.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80076330"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "So\u0306n, Su\u0306ng-hye. <em>The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: P. 97; reproduced: P. 95, no. 96",
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            }
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        "creditline": "Gift of Aoyama Keiji",
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                "description": "Aoyama Sanu (Japanese, 1912\u20131993)",
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                "biography": null,
                "name_in_original_language": "\u9752\u5c71\u6749\u96e8",
                "birth_year": "1912",
                "death_year": "1993",
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        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "2011-03-07T00:00:00",
        "sortable_date": 1979,
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        "date_text": "1979",
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        "alternate_titles": [
            "Reserving the Mundane Life"
        ],
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        "updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:01:34.818000"
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