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    "localId": "36936",
    "label": "Box for Documents; View into a house/feathers",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.161"
}

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    "id": "36936",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.161",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Box for Documents; View into a house/feathers",
    "description": "This document or stationery box, in which papers and scrolls were stored, is the mate to the adjacent writing box (67.75). The inlaid silver inscription is a fragment of Genji's poetic reply to the emperor woven across an image of a snow-covered veranda in the city of Kyoto. Genji wrote:The snows beneath the pines of OshioHave never known such mighty company.",
    "date": "18th-19th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.161",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "ryoshi-bako"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 12.7,
            "height": 40.3,
            "depth": 32.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 5 x W: 15 7/8 x D: 12 5/8 in. (12.7 x 40.32 x 32.07 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "med": "wood, lacquer, silver, gold, and mother-of-pearl",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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    ]
}

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