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    "localId": "19191",
    "label": "Tsuba with Leaves and Cherry Blossoms",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1266.2"
}

{
    "id": "19191",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1266.2",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Leaves and Cherry Blossoms",
    "description": "Several overlapping leaves form the body of the tsuba. The edge is decorated with cherry blossoms. This is part of a mounted set in which most pieces are signed by Okamoto Tomokata.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 18th-early 19th century (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1266.2",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Okamoto School",
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] 長門　友賢作; [Transliteration] Nagato / Tomokata saku; [Translation] Made in Nagato by Tomokata",
    "med": "iron",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5415"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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