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    "localId": "6933",
    "label": "Fans of the Twelve Months",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.151"
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    "id": "6933",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.151",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Fans of the Twelve Months",
    "description": "In the Rimpa school of Japanese painting, decoratively arranged fans were a common subject. Hoshuku added individual twists to a formula perfected by Hoitsu (1761-1828), an artist four generations behind him in a lineage of master and pupil.One of a pair with 35.150.",
    "provenance": "Mami Yasukochi, Tokyo [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1990, by purchase.",
    "date": "1907 (Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.151",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "kakemono",
        "scroll paintings"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 116.8,
            "height": 48.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Painting H: 46 x W: 19 1/4 in. (116.8 x 48.9 cm); Mounting H: 80 x W: 24 3/4 in. (203.2 x 62.87 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Date] early summer of Meiji year 40; [Signature] On right scroll: Hoshuku; [Seal] On right scroll: Koreitsu",
    "RelatedObjects": 31911,
    "med": "ink and colors on silk",
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        "5229"
    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2249"
    ]
}

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