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"tombstone": "J\u014dmon Vessel (\u7e04\u6587\u74f6), 1968. Okabe Mineo (Japanese, 1919\u20131990). Stoneware with blue-green glaze; overall: 27.8 x 26.2 x 27.1 cm (10 15/16 x 10 5/16 x 10 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.192. \u00a9 Okabe Mineo",
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"title": "J\u014dmon Vessel",
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"department": "Japanese Art",
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"type": "Ceramic",
"measurements": "Overall: 27.8 x 26.2 x 27.1 cm (10 15/16 x 10 5/16 x 10 11/16 in.)",
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"copyright": "\u00a9 Okabe Mineo",
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"inscription": "Box inscription: \u7fe0\u9752\u74f7\u7e04\u6587\u74f6\u3000\u5dba\u7537\u3000\u5dba\u7537\uff08\u5370\uff09",
"inscription_translation": "Box inscription: Green Celadon J\u014dmon [style] Vessel; signed: Mineo; sealed: Mineo",
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"id": 396695,
"title": "Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection",
"description": "Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).",
"opening_date": "2022-09-11T04:00:00"
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{
"id": 666805,
"title": "Contemporary Calligraphy and Clay",
"description": "Contemporary Calligraphy and Clay. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7, 2024-June 15, 2025).",
"opening_date": "2024-06-07T04:00:00"
}
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"description": "Okabe Mineo ten: seiji o kiwameru [\u5ca1\u90e8\u5dba\u7537\u5c55: \u9752\u78c1\u3092\u6975\u3081\u308b = Okabe Mineo: a retrospective]. National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (March 6-May 20, 2007); Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan (June 27-July 10, 2007); Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan (July 14- September 30, 2007); Hagi Uragami Museum, Hagi, Japan; Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Japan; and Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum, Kasama, Japan.",
"opening_date": "2007-03-06T05:00:00Z"
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"date": "1968-2013",
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"description": "(Joan B. Mirviss Ltd., New York, NY, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley)",
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"date": "2013",
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"description": "Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"date": "2013-2020",
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"did_you_know": "Throughout his life, Okabe changed his surname three times; born Kan\u014d Mineo, he changed his surname to Kat\u014d, after his mother, in 1927 and again to Okabe, after his wife, in 1978.",
"description": "Okabe Mineo presented his artistic vision in this work though an unexpected combination of materials and their treatment. The vessel features a blue-green glaze, resembling that produced in the Longquan region of China during the Southern Song dynasty (1127\u20131279). In contrast, its stoneware body evokes earthenware expressions of Japan\u2019s Neolithic period (about 14,000\u2013300 BCE), known as the J\u014dmon, or \u201ccord-marked\u201d era, after designs found on a subset of its ceramics. Some vessels in Mineo\u2019s J\u014dmon series have cord marks, while others, such as this one, reference the flamboyant mouths of some J\u014dmon pots.",
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{
"citation": "Kitagawa, Yasunori \u5317\u5ddd\u9756\u8a18, ed. Mineo sakuhinsh\u016b [\u5dba\u7537\u4f5c\u54c1\u96c6 = Works of Mineo]. Mineo Sakuhinsh\u016b Publishing Associates \u5dba\u7537\u4f5c\u54c1\u96c6\u520a\u884c\u4f1a, 1971.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 13",
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},
{
"citation": "Kenji Kaneko \u91d1\u5b50\u8ce2\u6cbb. Okabe Mineo ten: seiji o kiwameru [\u5ca1\u90e8\u5dba\u7537\u5c55: \u9752\u78c1\u3092\u6975\u3081\u308b = Okabe Mineo: a retrospective]. [Japan]: NHK Chubu Burenzu, 2007.",
"page_number": "cat. no. 123",
"url": ""
},
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"citation": "Rousmaniere, Nicole Coolidge. \"Japanese Ceramics.\" In The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 230\u2013251. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 240\u2013241; Mentioned: p. 269",
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}
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"alternate_titles": [
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"updated_at": "2026-06-11 12:17:39.381000"
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