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    "localId": "797",
    "label": "Tsuba with a Hawk and a Sparrow",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.381"
}

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    "id": "797",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.381",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with a Hawk and a Sparrow",
    "description": "The body of this tsuba is designed with a wood grain texutre made of multiple metals. At the upper right, a hawk is perched on a branch looking down. Below the hawk at the lower left is a sparrow. On the reverse, there is a branch at the upper left and a sparrow in flight at the bottom.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1836 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.381",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsuba",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.381_MrkA_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 8.5,
            "height": 8.6,
            "depth": 0.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 3/8 × W: 3 3/8 × D: 3/8 in. (8.5 × 8.6 × 0.9 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 行年六十三　乙柳軒; [Translation] Kônen rokujû san/Otsuryûken Miboku; [Translation] Age 63/Otsuryûken Mibuku",
    "med": "sentoku (copper-tin alloy), copper, silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5131"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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