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    "localId": "40428",
    "label": "Short Sword (\"\"Wakizashi\"\") with Dark Brown Saya",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1216"
}

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    "id": "40428",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1216",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Short Sword (\"\"Wakizashi\"\") with Dark Brown Saya",
    "description": "This Bizen style blade was cut down and remounted in the later 19th century. It was likely made by Kaytayama Ichimonji, and shows stylistic qualities indicative of Bizen-den work being done in Bitchu Province around 1300.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1300 (Kamakura)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1216",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "swords"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_51.1216_Fnt_BW_T89.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_51.1216_Fnt_BW_T89.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "mounted aikuchi: 22 1/8 in. (56.3 cm) (l.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Bizen School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Umetada Masaharu",
    "RelatedObjects": [
        "79605",
        "13265",
        "32834",
        "36168"
    ],
    "med": "dark brown lacquer, steel, silver, gold, shakudo, iron, bamboo, ray skin, shibuichi",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4010"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "mediaId": "f1a4debdfc5dd08f"
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