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"title": "The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art",
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"title": "Contemporary Calligraphy and Clay",
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"did_you_know": "Takaki Seiu was a student of Aoyama Sanu, whose calligraphy is also in the CMA collection. See 2011.16
and 2011.17.",
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"description": "These three characters, read from right to left, are a quote from an annotation of The Book of Songs, the oldest Chinese classical poetry anthology. The phrase means to use reason and logic when advising others. The characters are brushed in an abstracted version of a calligraphic style called seal script, an ancient Chinese mode of writing.",
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