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    "localId": "95198",
    "label": "Sword Guard (Tsuba) with Zhong Kui (Shōki) the Demon Queller",
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    "id": "95198",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Sword Guard (Tsuba) with Zhong Kui (Shōki) the Demon Queller",
    "date": "c. 1615–1868",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.90",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 7.7 x 7.8 cm (3 1/16 x 3 1/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Japan, possibly Edo period (1615-1868)"
    ],
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    "collection": "Japanese Art",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Vilbar, Sinead. \"The Japanese Art Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1915-1951.\" In <em>Great Waves &amp; Mountains: Perspectives and Discoveries in Collecting the Arts of Japan. </em>Natsu Oyobe, and Allysa B. Peyton, eds., 160-197. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2022.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 163–164, fig. 7.3"
        }
    ],
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    "creditline": "Gift of J. H. Donahey",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:05:34.109000",
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