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    "localId": "149406",
    "label": "Tea Storage Jar",
    "core": "obj",
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    "id": "149406",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Tea Storage Jar",
    "description": "In this tea storage jar, Nonomura Ninsei reinterpreted a Shigaraki stoneware—made to hold agricultural products and known for its warm orange color, asymmetrical round forms, and irregular natural ash glazes—to produce a more refined piece that would appeal to tea masters seeking a touch of rusticity. In Japanese tea culture, hanging scroll paintings or calligraphy are placed in the tokonoma<em>,</em> or viewing alcove, for participants to admire and discuss along with the utensils used in the gathering. The scrolls are typically paired with vessels containing seasonal floral arrangements.",
    "date": "mid- to late 1600s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.6",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79930627"
    ],
    "creators": [
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    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ceramic"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.6/1978.6_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.6/1978.6_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "height: 28.3 cm (11 1/8 in.); Diameter: 28.7 cm (11 5/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)"
    ],
    "accession": "1978.6"
}

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    "tec": "Stoneware with white glaze (Shigaraki style)",
    "tombstone": "Tea Storage Jar (茶壺), mid- to late 1600s. Nonomura Ninsei (Japanese, active 1640s–90s). Stoneware with white glaze (Shigaraki style); height: 28.3 cm (11 1/8 in.); diameter: 28.7 cm (11 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1978.6",
    "titleInOriginalLanguage": "茶壺",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Ninsei seal impressed in the clay on bottom.",
            "sortorder": 1
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "This jar may be considered an example of the aesthetic known as <em>kireisabi</em>, or refined rusticity.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Zauhō Kankōkai 座右寶刋行會. <em>Sekai tōji zenshū</em> [世界陶磁全集 = Ceramic Art of the World]. Vol. 6, Edo hen [江戶篇 = Edo Period]. Edited by Tadamari Mitsuoka. Tōkyō: Kawade Shobō Shinsha, 1955.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 125, pl. 120"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Yamane, Yūzō 山根有三, Shūjirō Shimada 島田修二郎, and Terukazu Akiyama 秋山光和. <em>Zaigai Nihon no shihō </em>在外日本の至宝. Tōkyō: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1979.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced; no. 75, p. 140, plate 75"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1978.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 66, no. 1, 1979, pp. 3–47.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: cat. no. 146, p. 40",
            "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159613"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cort, Louise Allison. <em>Shigaraki, Potters' Valley</em>. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1979.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 176, p. 157"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E., Michael R. Cunningham, and Ursula Korneitchouk. <em>One Thousand Years of Japanese Art (650-1650): From the Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue</em>. New York: Japan Society, 1981.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 44"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Neils, Jenifer. <em>The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: cat. no. 149"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Yamane, Yūzō 山根有三, Takashi Hamada 山根有三, et al. <em>Zaigai bijutsu </em>[在外美術 = Selections of Japanese Art from Western Collections]. Tōkyō: Shōgakukan, 1994.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 219; p. 237, no. 129"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Maezaki, Shinya and Sinéad Vilbar. <em>Colors of Kyoto: The Seifū Yohei Ceramic Studio</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 52, fig. 27"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1978.6",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:41:45.691000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1978.6/1978.6_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 149406,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
    "coll": "Japanese Art",
    "med": "Stoneware with white glaze (Shigaraki style)",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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