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    "localId": "15427",
    "label": "Kozuka with a Dragon Coiled around a Sword",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.645"
}

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    "id": "15427",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.645",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with a Dragon Coiled around a Sword",
    "description": "This is the rain dragon coiled around Kôbô Daishi's sword. Kôbô Daishi (also known as Kûkai; 774-834) was a Buddhist priest who studied in China and founded the Shingon sect of Buddhism in Japan. It is said he used a sword that had a dragon wrapped around it to bring rain at the end of a drought. This kozuka is unusual because it is made of wood and ivory, with a tortoise shell cap.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "n.d.",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.645",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.645_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.645_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm) (l.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "Unsigned",
    "med": "wood, ivory",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6194"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.645_Back_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "mediaId": "26a89e7fb1eff7d3"
}