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    "localId": "4750",
    "label": "Sword Fight between Ohatsu [left] and the Lady-in-Waiting Iwafuji [right]",
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    "dtoType": "print",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.342"
}

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    "id": "4750",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.342",
    "contentType": "print",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Sword Fight between Ohatsu [left] and the Lady-in-Waiting Iwafuji [right]",
    "description": "The sword fight featured in this print comes at the dramatic conclusion to a play that explores the nature of loyalty and honor among the women who serve the daughter of the Shogun Yoritomo. The evil Iwafuji raises her sword, at right, to kill the faithful Ohatsu, who has discovered Iwafuji's plot to kill the shogun. Ohatsu parries with an umbrella and eventually kills Iwafuji.",
    "provenance": "Robert S. Shaull [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1990, by bequest.",
    "date": "1867 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.342",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "woodblock prints"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_95.342_Fnt_BW_T92.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "style": "Utagawa School"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Kunichika hitsu",
    "med": "ink and color on mulberry paper",
    "creator_ids": [
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        "6301"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3514"
    ]
}

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