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Munja-Chaekgeori Screen (Character-Books Screen)

early 1900s
Eight-panel folding screen, ink on paper

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

The eight Korean characters each mean filial piety, brotherly love, loyalty, trust, propriety, righteousness or justice, modesty or integrity, and humility or the feeling of shame.

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