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"inscription": "\u59cb\u8208\u4e4b\u5370",
"inscription_translation": "Seal of Shik\u014d",
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"description": "\u6e21\u908a\u59cb\u8208 : \u7433\u6d3e\u306e\u7570\u624d : \u5927\u899a\u5bfa \u969c\u58c1\u753b \u3092 \u4e2d\u5fc3\u306b [Watanabe Shikouten : Rin pa no isai : Dai kakuji sho\u0304hekiga wo chu\u0304 shin ni]. Kyo\u0304to City Art Museum, Kyo\u0304to, Japan (March 18\u2013April 11, 1973).",
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"description": "Edo, Art in Japan 1615-1868. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (November 15, 1998\u2013February 15, 1999).",
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"description": "\u6e21\u8fba\u59cb\u8208\u306e\u7d75\u753b [Paintings of Watanabe Shik\u014d]. Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan (December 18, 2018\u2013January 27, 2019).",
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"description": "The painter Watanabe Shik\u014d had a special interest in scientific realism, based on interactions with his patron Konoe Iehiro. Shik\u014d combined his attention to accurate depiction of plants with strong ink outlines and decorative elements like gold and silver, arriving at an innovative style that influenced many of his peers in the city of Kyoto.",
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"citation": "Kyoto City Art Museum, ed. Rinpa no issai: Watanabe Shik\u014d-ten: Daikakuji sh\u014dheiga o ch\u016bshin ni [= \u6e21\u908a\u59cb\u8208: \u7433\u6d3e\u306e\u7570\u624d: \u5927\u899a\u5bfa \u969c\u58c1\u753b \u3092 \u4e2d\u5fc3\u306b]. Kyoto: Kyoto City Museum, 1973.",
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"citation": "Takeuchi Misako, \u201cFlowers and Trees of the Four Seasons,\u201d in Takeuchi Misako, et al., \u7433\u6d3e : \u7279\u522b\u5c55 : \u7f8e\u306e\u7d99\u627f - \u5b97\u9054, \u5149\u7433, \u62b1\u4e00, \u5176\u4e00 [= Rimpa: Succession of Beauty\u2014Sotatsu, Korin, Hoitsu, Kiitsu]. Nagoya: Nagoya City Museum, 1994.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 39, pp. 201\u2013202",
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"citation": "Takeuchi, Melinda. \u201cWatanabe Shik\u014d (1683\u20131755): Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons,\u201d in Singer, Robert T, John T Carpenter, et al., Japan Foundation, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan., National Gallery of Art (U.S.). Edo, Art in Japan 1615-1868. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1998.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 162, p. 306\u2013307",
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"citation": "Fukushi Yuya, \u201cWatanabe Shik\u014d hitsu: shiki s\u014dka zu by\u014dbu [Screens of Grasses and Flowers of the Four Seasons Painted by Watanabe Shik\u014d],\u201d in Kad\u014d: Ikenobo [Way of Flowers: Journal of the Ikenobo School of Ikebana], January 2019, pp. 56\u201357.",
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