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"tombstone": "Water Jar (\u6c34\u6307), 1960. Okabe Mineo (Japanese, 1919\u20131990). Glazed stoneware (Oribe style); 16.6 x 16.1 x 16.8 cm (6 9/16 x 6 5/16 x 6 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.198. \u00a9 Okabe Mineo",
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"title": "Water Jar",
"title_in_original_language": "\u6c34\u6307",
"creation_date": "1960",
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"department": "Japanese Art",
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"type": "Ceramic",
"measurements": "16.6 x 16.1 x 16.8 cm (6 9/16 x 6 5/16 x 6 5/8 in.)",
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"height": 0.166,
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"copyright": "\u00a9 Okabe Mineo",
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"inscription": "Artist's mark incised in the shape of long cross",
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"inscription_remark": "The mark was incised in the wet clay during manufacture.",
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"inscription": "Box lid inscription: \u7e54\u90e8 \u6c34\u6307\u3000\u5dba\u7537\u3000\u5dba\u7537\uff08\u5370\uff09",
"inscription_translation": "Oribe Water Jar; 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": 450266,
"title": "To the River's South in Japanese Painting",
"description": "To the River's South in Japanese Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 2023-June 2, 2024).",
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"description": "(Joan B. Mirviss Ltd., New York, NY, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley)",
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"date": "2016\u20132020",
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"did_you_know": "Born in Seto, Aichi prefecture, Okabe was the son of influential potter Kat\u014d Tokur\u014d (1897\u20131985).",
"description": "This water jar was made to hold the water used in tea gatherings. Okabe Mineo took his inspiration for the lidded vessel from the aesthetics of tea master Furuta Oribe (1544\u20131615), who initiated the color schemes and sometimes flamboyant designs that characterize the so-called Oribe style.",
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"citation": "Nihon \u0100to Sent\u0101 (\u65e5\u672c\u30a2\u30fc\u30c8\u30bb\u30f3\u30bf\u30fc) ed., \u9676\u6101\uff0d\u5ca1\u90e8\u5dba\u7537\u4f5c\u54c1\u96c6 [To\u0304shu\u0304: Okabe Mineo sakuhinshu\u0304 = Ceramic Melancholy: Collected Works of Okabe Mineo]. Tokyo: Sho\u0304gakkan, 2007.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 52, pl. 61",
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},
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"citation": "Maske, Andrew L. A Palette for Genius: Japanese Water Jars for the Tea Ceremony: Presented at Joan B. Mirviss Ltd., New York, Collaboration with Shibuya Kuradatoen Co., Ltd., March 10-April 15, 2016. New York: Joan B. Mirviss Ltd., 2016.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: front cover, back cover (detail), p. 9",
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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. 238\u2013239; Mentioned: p. 269",
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}
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"updated_at": "2026-03-27 00:01:16.850000"
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