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    "localId": "15786",
    "label": "Tsuka with Chrysanthemums",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1290.2"
}

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    "id": "15786",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1290.2",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuka with Chrysanthemums",
    "description": "A large chrysanthemum with leaves dominates the kashira. Each menuki is in the shape of chrysanthemums with a traditionally bound book. An inscription in ink on the end of tsuka implies the sword was mounted in Asakusa, Tokyo. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1868-1912 (Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1290.2",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1290.2_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 4 1/8 in. (10.4 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[inscription] In ink on tsuka: 大日本東京赤坂 [ ] [ ]; [Transliteration] Dainihon Tokyo Akasaka [ ] [ ]",
    "med": "shakudo, silver, gold, ray skin",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6194"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "mediaId": "648e0e9e151b24f7"
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