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    "localId": "36274",
    "label": "Kozuka with Boy Standing on an Ox Trying to Catch a Cicada",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.769"
}

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    "id": "36274",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.769",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with Boy Standing on an Ox Trying to Catch a Cicada",
    "description": "The background of the kozuka resembles the trunk of a pine tree. At the base of the tree, a boy stands on the back of a seated ox. With a long stick, he is trying to reach a cicada in the tree.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1796-1852 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.769",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.769_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm) (l.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Hamano School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] On kozuka: 松壽軒　矩隨; [Translation] Shôjuken Noriyuki",
    "med": "nigurome (?), gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2424"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.769_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "8473376d550b4ec2"
}