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    "localId": "2352",
    "label": "Tsuba with an Immortal with His Tiger",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.181"
}

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    "id": "2352",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.181",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with an Immortal with His Tiger",
    "description": "On the right side of this tsuba is a Chinese immortal standing with a tiger. It is either Bukan (Ch. Fung Gan), who would ride his tiger around his monastery to shock others or the Taoist sage Koreijin (Ch. Gu Lingren), who is accompanied by his white tiger. Tigers are said to turn white when they reach the age of five hundred years. The tiger demonstrates the power of sage's wisdom, because he was able to tame such a strong animal. On the left is a bamboo grove.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 19th century (late Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.181",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.181_Mrk_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.181_Mrk_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6.9,
            "height": 6.6,
            "depth": 0.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 11/16 x 2 5/8 x 3/16 in. (6.9 x 6.6 x 0.42 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Ishiguro School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 美春作; [Transliteration] Yoshiharu saku; [Translation] Made by Yoshiharu",
    "med": "silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4917"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.181_Mrk_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "mediaId": "19967ba2b58d23fd"
}