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    "localId": "2350",
    "label": "Tsuka with Dragons, Clouds, and Mt. Fuji",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1281.3B"
}

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    "id": "2350",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1281.3B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuka with Dragons, Clouds, and Mt. Fuji",
    "description": "The kashira on the end depicts a dragon amongst clouds with gold highlights. One of the menuki is in the shape of a gold dragon flying through shakudo clouds. The other depicts Mt. Fuji. The pairing of a dragon and Mt. Fuji is an emblem of success. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "18th-19th century (late Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1281.3B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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        "kashira",
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        "handles"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "none",
    "med": "silver, ray skin, gold, shakudo",
    "creator_ids": [
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        "16506"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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