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- ↑ Asia Society Presents Major Exhibition of Japanese Woodblock Prints And Paintings
- ↑ Japanese Art Society publications
- ↑ Art Index, Jan. 2010, New York, H. W. Wilson Co., Vol. 81, No. 1, p. xiii
- ↑ 2009 Donald Keene Prize for the Promotion of Japanese Culture
