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<div>Hello Hilary:</div>
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<div>Yes, Sin Yun-bok and "Miin-do" are good keywords. The
most famous one by Sin Yun-bok is this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hyewon-Miindo.jpg The one you
find in every tourist booklet, on umbrellas, as ball pen designs,
etc.</div>
<div>The term "miin-do" seems to be a generic term, not an
actual title. You also find miin-do paintings in China and Japan, also
in later periods (e.g. during the Taishô period in Japan). That is a
genre that traveled and changed throughout the centuries, was kind of
"back-introduced" in a modern version to Korea in the
1920s.</div>
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<div>The one you have there, the one the stage image is based on,
looks to me like a 19th century work based on Sin Yun-bok. Especially
the way the face is done would to me indicate that it is later than
Sin Yun-bok's period. The Japanese National Museum in Tokyo in whose
collection it is gives the painter as "anonymous."</div>
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<div>Painter: anonymous</div>
<div>114.2 cm x 56.5 cm, colors on paper</div>
<div>Collection: Tokyo National Museum (in Ueno Park)</div>
<div>http://www.tnm.jp/?lang=en</div>
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<div>Best,</div>
<div>Frank</div>
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Frank Hoffmann<br>
http://koreaweb.ws</div>
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