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    "localId": "7126",
    "label": "Short sword (wakizashi) with black lacquer saya with malachite inlay (includes 51.1252.1-51.1252.4)",
    "core": "obj",
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    "id": "7126",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1252",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Short sword (wakizashi) with black lacquer saya with malachite inlay (includes 51.1252.1-51.1252.4)",
    "description": "Black lacquer saya with malachite inlay. Mountings of copper and gold with nanako ground. Silver-gilt menuki. Double seppa of copper and gold; Gold habaki. Tsuka with ray skin and ito-maki. Kozuka blade with dragon and sword.Tsuba -  Flag, pond plant. fuchi, kashira - plum blossoms, pine, crane, turtle (minogame), Taoist immortal. menuki - Hotei with sack. kozuka, kogai - Fukurokujin and crane. kozuka blade has a so no kurikara (dragon coiled around ken).",
    "date": "Ca.1844-1864 (late Edo)",
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    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "short swords",
        "wakizashi",
        "wakizashi blade",
        "tsuba",
        "fuchi",
        "kashira",
        "menuki",
        "kozuka",
        "kogai",
        "s"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 27 13/16 in. (70.7 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Yasutsugu",
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    "med": "Black lacquer, steel, shakudo, copper, gold, malachite, ray skin",
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