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Japan artist illuminates a classic Dutch art piece by Hendrick Avercamp

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Japanese art and Takeshiro Kanokogi: Influence of Jean-Paul Laurens and Emile-Rene Menard

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Art of Japan and Matsumura Goshun: Impact of high culture, Yosa Buson, and the shadow of death

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Japan poetry and Tendai Buddhism: The historian and poetic Buddhist monk Jien (1155-1225)

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Japanese Art and Ito Shinsui: the stunning art of his early golden period

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