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{
    "localId": "16463",
    "label": "Kozuka with Chinese Lion",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.799"
}

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    "id": "16463",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.799",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with Chinese Lion",
    "description": "This lion is called a Chinese lion (\"shishi\") because it derives from images of lions imported to Japan from China. Lions were not native to Japan, so artists were not able to draw them from life. The artist of the kozuka signed it on the reverse.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1670-1733 (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.799",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.799_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.799_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.799_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm) (l.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Yokoya School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] On kozuka: 宗珉; [Translation] Sômin",
    "med": "shibuichi, shakudo, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4419"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.799_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "bc38ccf06b524b93"
}