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    "localId": "15688",
    "label": "Kozuka with Mt. Fuji",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.844"
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    "id": "15688",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.844",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with Mt. Fuji",
    "description": "Mt. Fuji is executed in silver, with clouds at the lower right. Mt. Fuji is the most sacred mountain in Japan. It has long been an important site for pilgrimage and is still a popular tourist destination. On the reverse is a poem by the Japanese Confusian scholar Ogyû Sorai (1666-1728).",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1840 (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.844",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Date] 天保庚子泰簇; [Transliteration] Tenpo kanoene taisô; [Translation] January 1840; [Signature] 春明法眼; [Translation] Haruaki Hôgen (kao)",
    "med": "shakudo, silver",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "170"
    ]
}

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