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{
    "localId": "2269",
    "label": "Short sword (wakizashi) with black lacquer saya with strips of bamboo applied (includes 51.1230.1-51.1230.5)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1230"
}

{
    "id": "2269",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1230",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Short sword (wakizashi) with black lacquer saya with strips of bamboo applied (includes 51.1230.1-51.1230.5)",
    "description": "Rough black lacquer saya with strips of bamboo applied. Mountings of shibuichi; Kozuka with inscription on blade. Gold habaki and seppa. Gold and silver menuki. Tsuka with ray skin (same) and ito-maki.",
    "date": "1866 (late Edo; Nambokucho)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1230",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "short swords",
        "wakizashi",
        "wakizashi blade",
        "tsuba",
        "fuchi",
        "kashira",
        "menuki",
        "kozuka",
        "kogai",
        "s"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_51.1230_Mrk_DD_T12.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_51.1230_Mrk_DD_T12.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_51.1230_Mrk_DD_T12.jpg",
    "imageCount": 5,
    "pageCount": 5,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "26 3/4 in. (68 cm) (l.) mounted wakizashi"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] Morishige; [Transcription] Ichikin(?) Nakagawa Katsuzane/Keio hei-n (hime tora) nen fuyu; [Transcription] Tenpo kyu nen inu tochu Juosai Ishiguro Masayoshi; [Translation] Ichikin(?) Nakagawa Katsuzane/Winter 1866; [Translation] Tenpo 9 (1838)",
        "year of the dog",
        "mid winter",
        "Juosai Ishiguro Masayoshi"
    ],
    "RelatedObjects": [
        "35444",
        "5644",
        "1973",
        "79198"
    ],
    "med": "Black lacquer, bamboo, steel, gold, silver, shakudo, ray skin",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4500",
        "5344",
        "5417"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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