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    "title": "Sword Guard",
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            "citation": "\"Accessions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 6, no. 6 (1919): 113-14.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 114",
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            "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. <em>Japanese Decorative Style.</em> [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.",
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