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    "localId": "40523",
    "label": "Blossoming Cherry Trees",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.113"
}

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    "id": "40523",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.113",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Blossoming Cherry Trees",
    "description": "Cherry blossoms appear on this pair of Japanese folding screens (35.113 and 35.114). Gold-leaf clouds partly cover and partly reveal the trunks and branches of three ancient cherry trees. Cherry blossoms in Japan represent a celebration of life’s ephemerality and acceptance of nature’s ebb and flow, underlying the Japanese concept of mono no aware, a sensibility that acknowledges both the joy and sorrow that come with the fleeting nature of beauty and, ultimately, of life itself. The brief cherry blossom season, which lasts only about a week, is celebrated every spring in Japan with cherry-blossom viewing in public parks. Folding screens made rooms-within-rooms in the large spaces of 17th-century elite homes. And with large amounts of gold leaf, imagine the screens reflecting the changing sunlight throughout the day and flickering candlelight at night.",
    "provenance": "Mathias Komor, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1973, by purchase.",
    "date": "ca. 1600-1615 (Edo period (1603-1868))",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.113",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "screens"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 175.3,
            "height": 374.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 69 × W: 147 3/8 in. (175.26 × 374.33 cm); H open with proper spread: 69 × W: 109 in. (175.26 × 276.86 cm); H of each of two outer panels: 69 × W: 25 3/16 in. (175.26 × 63.98 cm); H of each of four inner panels: 69 × W: 24 1/4 in. (175.26 × 61.6 cm)"
}

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    ],
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