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    "localId": "5102",
    "label": "Kozuka with Herons and Reeds",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1183.3"
}

{
    "id": "5102",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1183.3",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with Herons and Reeds",
    "description": "At the right of the composition, two herons are shown standing beneath reeds. Incised lines on the left indicate water. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1864 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1183.3",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1183.3_MrkA_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1183.3_MrkA_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Date] 元治元歳甲子仲夏; [Transliteration] Genji gentoshi kinoe ne",
        "chûka; [Translation] first year of Genji (1864)",
        "year of the rat",
        "5th month; [Signature] 一柳斎正光製; [Transliteration] Ichiryûsai Masamitsu sei; [Translation] Made by Ichiryûsai Masamitsu"
    ],
    "med": "silver, shakudo, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4246"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "mediaId": "957c96591d9ded7d"
}