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    "localId": "12200",
    "label": "Fuchi with Seven Sages in a Bamboo Grove",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.986"
}

{
    "id": "12200",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.986",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Fuchi with Seven Sages in a Bamboo Grove",
    "description": "This motif derives from seven scholars in Chinese during the 3rd century who withdrew from society. The fuchi shows four sages (one of whom is on the reverse) and a page boy. The other three sages on the kashira, Walters 51.987.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1850 (late Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.986",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "fuchi",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.986_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.986_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm) (l.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 木村友長刻; [Transliteration] Kimura Tomonaga kizamu; [Translation] Carved by Kimura Tomonaga",
    "med": "shibuichi, gold, copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5239"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.986_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "17f17481bb533025"
}