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    "localId": "99990",
    "label": "Sword Guard",
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    "id": "99990",
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    "title": "Sword Guard",
    "date": "late 1600s",
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        {
            "inscription": "signed \"Jakushi.\""
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            "citation": "\"Accessions.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 6, no. 6 (1919): 113-14.",
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