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    "localId": "152421",
    "label": "Willow and Waterfall",
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    "id": "152421",
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    "title": "Willow and Waterfall",
    "description": "As the title of this album suggests, Tsubaki Chinzan painted each of the landscapes included in the album after interpretations of the styles of old masters by Chinese painter Zhai Dakun (翟大坤, active 1730–1804). In addition to the painted compositions, he also copied the inscriptions on Zhai Dakun's paintings.",
    "date": "1847",
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    "tombstone": "Willow and Waterfall, 1847. Tsubaki Chinzan (Japanese, 1801–1854). Album leaf; ink and color on silk; each leaf: 41 x 31.5 cm (16 1/8 x 12 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Kelvin Smith Collection, given by Mrs. Kelvin Smith, 1985.251.7",
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            "inscription": "Tsubaki Chinzan inscribed each leaf with the same inscription that Zhai Dakun wrote on his album leaves.",
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    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Yamanouchi, Chōzō 山內長三. <em>Nihon nangashi </em>日本南画史 [The history of Japanese nanga painting]. Tōkyō: 瑠璃書房: 発売 六興出版, 1981.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 471–473"
        },
        {
            "citation": "“Checklist of the Kelvin Smith Bequest.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>75, no. 7 (September 1988): 292–295.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 294",
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