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    "localId": "13141",
    "label": "Kozuka with a Performing Monkey",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.895"
}

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    "id": "13141",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.895",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with a Performing Monkey",
    "description": "A man in formal dress sits on the right side of the kozuka holding a stick and a monkey on a rope. The monkey holds \"shide\" paper streamers attached to a stick. The pine boughs to the right of the man suggest that this scene occurs during the New Year's celebrations. Trained monkey performances were a common form of amusement during the Edo period. This is only the decorative front plate of the kozuka.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "18th-19th century (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.895",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.895_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "none",
    "med": "shibuichi, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6194"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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