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    "localId": "11563",
    "label": "Sen Taiheiki gigokuden",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.339"
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    "id": "11563",
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    "contentType": "print",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Sen Taiheiki gigokuden",
    "description": "Taira Masakado (901-940), an evil usurper of the throne, charges into battle surrounded by look-alike decoys. Masakado used magic to create ghostly doubles of himself, making it difficult for his enemies to find him on the battlefield. He was finally killed by a warrior who crept into his camp at night and felt the wrists of all the sleeping Masakados until he found one with a pulse.",
    "provenance": "Robert S. Shaull [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1990, by bequest.",
    "date": "1890 (Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.339",
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    "language": "en",
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        "color woodcuts",
        "triptychs"
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    "imageCount": 4,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 35.2,
            "height": 72.6
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    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "All three pieces H: 13 7/8 x W: 28 9/16 in. (35.2 x 72.6 cm); Each piece H: 13 7/8 x W: 9 11/16 in. (35.2 x 24.6 cm)",
    "style": "Utagawa School"
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    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] On print: Oju Toyohara Kunichika hitsu",
    "med": "mulberry paper, pigments",
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        "6301"
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