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"tombstone": "Bowl with Fishes Motif (\u9b5a\u6587\u9262), 1959. Ishiguro Munemaro (Japanese, 1893\u20131968). Glazed stoneware; 7.1 x 31 cm (2 13/16 x 12 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.194",
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"title": "Bowl with Fishes Motif",
"title_in_original_language": "\u9b5a\u6587\u9262",
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"department": "Japanese Art",
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"type": "Ceramic",
"measurements": "7.1 x 31 cm (2 13/16 x 12 3/16 in.)",
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"inscription": "Box cover inscription: \u9dd3\u9d23\u6591\u9b5a\u6587\u9262\u3000\u6829\u5eb5\u3000\u91cd\u8981\u7121\u5f62\u6587\u5316\u8ca1\u5de5\u82b8\u5bb6 \u77f3\u9ed2\u5b97\u9ebf \u9244\u91c9\u9676\u82b8\u5b97\u98a8\u5929\u76ee\u540d\u4eba\u3000\u516b\u702c\u7aaf",
"inscription_translation": "Box cover inscription: Shakohan (or Zheguban, \"partridge-feather\" mottles in glaze) Bowl with Fishes Motif, Kuan (style name), Intangible Important Cultural Property (Living National Treasure) Designee Craftsman Ishiguro Munemaro, person famous [for his] Song-dynasty style iron-oxide Tenmoku glaze, Yase Kiln",
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"inscription": "Box inscription (observe): \u9dd3\u9d23\u6591\u9b5a\u6587 \u9262\u3000\u6829\u3000\u6829\uff08\u5370\uff09",
"inscription_translation": "Box inscription (obverse): Shakohan (or Zheguban, \"partridge-feather\" mottles in glaze) Bowl with Fishes Motif, signed: Ku (of style name Kuan), sealed: Ku (of style name Kuan)",
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{
"inscription": "Impressed seal on base: \u6829",
"inscription_translation": "Impressed seal on base: Ku (of style name Kuan)",
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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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"description": "\u77f3\u9ed2\u5b97\u9ebf\u5c55\uff0d\u9676\u82b8\u306e\u5fc3\u3068\u308f\u3056(Ishiguro Munemaro ten: to\u0304gei no kokoro to waza [Ishiguro Munemaro Exhibition: The Creative Spirit of his Ceramic Art]). National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (organizer). National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (March 25\u2013June 7, 1981); Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, Seto (June 20\u2013August 23, 1981); Ishikawa Prefectural Art Museum, Kanazawa (September 5\u2013October 25, 1981).",
"opening_date": "1981-06-07T00:00:00"
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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\u20132020",
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"did_you_know": "In 1955, Ishiguro was designated a Living National Treasure for his mastering of tetsugusuri, or iron-glazed ceramics.",
"description": "Painted with four swimming fish, this bowl was created by one of the most influential Japanese potters of the 1900s. It was made a few years after Ishiguro Munemaro was designated as a Living National Treasure. Each fish faces a different direction, creating a sense of movement and play.",
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"citation": "National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, ed. \u77f3\u9ed2\u5b97\u9ebf\u5c55\uff0d\u9676\u82b8\u306e\u5fc3\u3068\u308f\u3056(Ishiguro Munemaro ten: to\u0304gei no kokoro to waza [Ishiguro Munemaro Exhibition: The Creative Spirit of his Ceramic Art]). Tokyo: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1981.",
"page_number": "p. 5, cat. no. 17",
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"citation": "Inui Yoshiaki (\u4e7e\u7531\u660e), ed. \u3084\u304d\u3082\u306e\u306e\u7f8e\u73fe\u4ee3\u65e5\u672c\u9676\u82b8\u5168\u96c6(Yakimono no bi: gendai Nihon to\u0304gei zenshu\u0304 [The Beauty of Ceramics: Compendium of Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Arts:]), vol. 5, \u77f3\u9ed2\u5b97\u9ebf (Ishiguro Munemaro). Tokyo: Shu\u0304eisha, 1982.",
"page_number": "cat. no. 72",
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},
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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. 236\u2013237; Mentioned: p. 265",
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},
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"citation": "\"Supporter Story: Marc and Elizabeth Wilson.\u201d Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 63, no. 3 (2023): 30\u201331.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 30",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2023-03/page/30/mode/2up"
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"updated_at": "2026-05-12 11:10:15.286000"
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