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    "localId": "28131",
    "label": "Kabukiza shin kyogen",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "print",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.507"
}

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    "id": "28131",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.507",
    "contentType": "print",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kabukiza shin kyogen",
    "description": "Beak-nosed winged goblins (\"tengu\") swarm about Takatoki, making him dance until he nearly faints.  Hojo Takatoki (1303-33), a feeble-minded, vicious, and debauched military ruler, believed his palace was infested with goblins who mocked and attacked him.  This print illustrates the climactic dance scene from a Kabuki play based on the last days of his rule.  The famous actor Ichikawa Danjuro IX portrays Takatoki.",
    "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": "1902 (Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.507",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "woodblock prints",
        "triptychs"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 35.9,
            "height": 23.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "each panel: 14 1/8 x 9 3/8 in. (35.88 x 23.81 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Utagawa Toyosai hitsu",
    "med": "mulberry paper, pigments",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
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}

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