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{
    "localId": "6352",
    "label": "Kozuka with the Chinese Immortal Gama",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.897"
}

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    "id": "6352",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.897",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with the Chinese Immortal Gama",
    "description": "The man shown leaning on his walking stick is the Chinese immortal Gama. At the bottom is a three-legged frog. Gama's spirit was able to leave his body to wander and once returned to find the body unfit to re-inhabit. He put his spirit into the nearest creature, which was a frog. This kozuka still has its blade, which is signed.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "17th century (early Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.897",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.897_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 6,
    "pageCount": 6,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 8 1/8 in. (20.7 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 河内守国助; [Translation] Kawachinokami Kunisuke; [Date] unread on blade; [Translation] 1624 (?) 1658 (?) 1661(?)",
    "med": "iron, shibuichi, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6194",
        "6138"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "mediaId": "108e1f166989554f"
}