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    "localId": "299513",
    "label": "A Puppet Made from a Bucket, A Lady of the Enpō Era (1673–1681), from the series Thirty-six Elegant Selections",
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    "title": "A Puppet Made from a Bucket, A Lady of the Enpō Era (1673–1681), from the series Thirty-six Elegant Selections",
    "description": "Each of the prints in the series Thirty-six Elegant Selections features a woman from a different time period, as befits an artist who was interested in history painting. Most of the prints are set in the Edo period (1615–1868). Mizuno Toshikata was a favored student of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839–1892), and took over his post as a newspaper illustrator.",
    "date": "1894",
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    "tec": "Woodblock print, ink and color on paper",
    "tombstone": "A Puppet Made from a Bucket, A Lady of the Enpō Era (1673–1681), from the series Thirty-six Elegant Selections, 1894. Mizuno Toshikata (Japanese, 1866–1908). Woodblock print, ink and color on paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Norman W. Zaworski Trust, 2017.75",
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    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "Inscription Type: series title\nInscription Transliteration: 三十六佳撰\nInscription Romanization: Sanjūrokkasen\nInscription translation: The Thirty-six Elegant Selections"
        },
        {
            "inscription": "Inscription Type:  artist’s signature\nInscription Transliteration:  年方\nInscription Romanization: Toshikata"
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        {
            "inscription": "Inscription Type: artist’s seal\nInscription Transliteration: 應斎年方\nInscription Romanization:  Ōsai Toshikata"
        },
        {
            "inscription": "Inscription Type: engraver’s seal\nInscription Transliteration: えん活刀\nInscription Romanization: En-Katsu to"
        },
        {
            "inscription": "Inscription type: date and publisher’s information\nInscription Translation: Meiji 27 (1894) Akiyama Buemon (summary)"
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