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    "localId": "14451",
    "label": "Tsuba with the Legendary Chinese ruler Shinnô",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.369"
}

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    "id": "14451",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.369",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with the Legendary Chinese ruler Shinnô",
    "description": "The Chinese sage Shinnô (Ch. Shen Nong [Shen Nung]) is on the right side of the tsuba, eating a blade of grass. He has two small horns on his head. Shinnô is credited with inventing the plow and the harp. He also expanded the number of ideograms for the written language from eight to sixty-four. On the reverse is a mountain landscape.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1701-1761 (mid Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.369",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Nara School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Issandô Jûi (kao); [Seal] Nagaharu",
    "med": "copper, gold, sentoku",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6216"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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