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    "localId": "111663",
    "label": "Elegant Pleasures of the Four Seasons",
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    "id": "111663",
    "contentType": "print",
    "title": "Elegant Pleasures of the Four Seasons",
    "description": "The title of this print suggests a series of four, but only this wintry print is known. A boy has dropped his toy wrestlers as he is hoisted up to a woman who has been enjoying a book at the heated table. Her companion buries her head beneath the blanket to stay warm, her bare feet exposed by a girl tending the hot coals in the pit in the floor.",
    "date": "c. 1782",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.196",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1930.196/1930.196_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 26.1 x 39.1 cm (10 1/4 x 15 3/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, Edo period (1615–1868)"
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    "tec": "Woodblock print; ink and color on paper",
    "tombstone": "Elegant Pleasures of the Four Seasons, c. 1782. Attributed to Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753?-1806). Woodblock print; ink and color on paper; sheet: 26.1 x 39.1 cm (10 1/4 x 15 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore, 1930.196",
    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Itchō ga"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Bequest of Edward L. Whittemore",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:54:44.617000",
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    "sourceId": 111663,
    "dept": "Japanese Art",
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