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        "accession_number": "2020.67",
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        "tombstone": "Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Hydrangea at Night (\u591c\u7d2b\u967d\u82b1\u6587\u786f\u7bb1), 1930s. Japan, Sh\u014dwa period (1926\u201389). Lacquered wood and silver with gold, silver, and color sprinkled powder (maki-e); 5.4 x 23.1 x 25.3 cm (2 1/8 x 9 1/8 x 9 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Lillian M. Kern Memorial Fund, 2020.67",
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        "title": "Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Hydrangea at Night",
        "title_in_original_language": "\u591c\u7d2b\u967d\u82b1\u6587\u786f\u7bb1",
        "creation_date": "1930s",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1930,
        "creation_date_latest": 1939,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "Japan, Sh\u014dwa period (1926\u201389)"
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        "technique": "Lacquered wood and silver with gold, silver, and color sprinkled powder (maki-e)",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "Japanese Art",
        "collection": "Japanese Art",
        "type": "Lacquer",
        "measurements": "5.4 x 23.1 x 25.3 cm (2 1/8 x 9 1/8 x 9 15/16 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "No Extent Specified": {
                "height": 0.054,
                "height_inch": 2,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.125,
                "width": 0.231,
                "width_inch": 9,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.125,
                "depth": 0.253,
                "depth_inch": 9,
                "depth_inch_fraction": 0.9375
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        "state_of_the_work": null,
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        "copyright": null,
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 373117,
                    "title": "Early Rinpa (Japanese gallery rotation) 235",
                    "description": "<i>Early Rinpa (Japanese gallery rotation) 235</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 23, 2020-January 17, 2021).",
                    "opening_date": "2020-10-16T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 450073,
                    "title": "Modern Japan",
                    "description": "<i>Modern Japan</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 14, 2022-June 18, 2023).",
                    "opening_date": "2022-10-14T04:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": []
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "(Erik Thomsen Asian Art, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [],
                "date": "?\u20132020",
                "sortorder": 2
            },
            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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                "footnotes": [],
                "date": "2020\u2013",
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            }
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        "former_accession_numbers": [],
        "did_you_know": "The moody, glamorous look of the box is an excellent example of reconsidering classical seasonal motifs.",
        "early_education_description": null,
        "artlens_description": null,
        "description": "Japanese writing boxes are designed to hold all the tools for traditional calligraphy, including an inkstone, water dropper, ink cake, and brushes. This box retains its inkstone and water dropper, the latter of which has a design of the sun behind clouds\u2014a contrast to the hydrangea flower in moonlight motif on the box\u2019s lid.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106617482"
            ],
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        },
        "citations": [],
        "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.67",
        "images": {},
        "alternate_images": [],
        "creditline": "Lillian M. Kern Memorial Fund",
        "image_credit": null,
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        "gallery_donor_text": null,
        "athena_id": 375491,
        "creators": [],
        "legal_status": "accessioned",
        "accession_date": "2020-03-02T00:00:00-05:00",
        "sortable_date": 1930,
        "date_added_to_oa": null,
        "date_text": "1930s",
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        "cover_accession_number": null,
        "is_nazi_era_provenance": false,
        "impression": null,
        "alternate_titles": [],
        "is_highlight": false,
        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:54:06.189000"
    }
}