James Ulak, curator of Japanese art at Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, answers: Can you learn your A-B-Cs from a statue? See more from the Freer Gallery of Art collection at http://open.asia.si.edu.
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