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Tao Yuanming's Return Home

1300s
Handscroll; ink and slight color on silk

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Poet Tao Yuanming 陶淵明 (c. 365–427 CE) returned to a secluded life instead of pursuing a civil service career.

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