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    "localId": "12448",
    "label": "Tsuba with a Peasant by Looking at the Moon",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.117"
}

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    "id": "12448",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.117",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with a Peasant by Looking at the Moon",
    "description": "A peasant stands at the right, carrying an ax over his shoulder and a straw basket in his hand. He gazes at the moon in the upper left. The clouds around the moon were created by cutting away the body of the tsuba. A small stream is at the lower left and continues onto the reverse.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1864 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.117",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6.4,
            "height": 5.5,
            "depth": 0.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 1/2 x W: 2 3/16 x D: 1/8 in. (6.39 x 5.5 x 0.38 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Hamano School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 利廣; [Translation] Toshihiro (kao)",
    "med": "shibuichi, copper, gold, silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6978"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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