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    "localId": "20804",
    "label": "Tokyo kaika kyoga meisho",
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    "id": "20804",
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    "contentType": "print",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tokyo kaika kyoga meisho",
    "description": "Taking advantage of a Chinese man's long braid, a Nezu prostitute tries to pull in some business.",
    "provenance": "C. Robert Snell, Oriental Arts & Antiques, Timonium, Maryland; purchased by Justine Lewis Keidel, Owings Mills, Maryland, after 1971; given to Walters Art Museum, 1991.",
    "date": "1881 (Meiji)",
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    "language": "en",
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    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 18.7,
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    "dimensionsRaw": "7 3/8 x 9 5/8 in. (18.73 x 24.45 cm)"
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    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Yoshitoshi giga (drew for fun); [Transcription] Nezu no Nagaya shogi nankinjin o hiku; [Translation] A prostitute of the Nagaya house in Nezu pulls in a Chinese man",
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        "4514"
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