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    "localId": "8270",
    "label": "Kashira with the Chinese Immortal Gama",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1123"
}

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    "id": "8270",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1123",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kashira with the Chinese Immortal Gama",
    "description": "This figure is the Chinese immortal Gama, with a three-legged frog on his back. Gama's spirit was able to leave his body to wander and once returned to find the body unfit. He put his spirit into the nearest creature, which was a frog. He is often paired with the immortal Tekkai, shown on Walters 51.1122, because they both had the ability to send their spirits out of their bodies.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "n.d.",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1123",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kashira",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1123_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1123_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 1 5/16 in. (3.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "none",
    "med": "shibuichi, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6194"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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