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    "localId": "1720",
    "label": "Dagger with Seashells on the Sheath",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1294"
}

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    "id": "1720",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1294",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Dagger with Seashells on the Sheath",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1825-1875 (late Edo; Meiji; Muromachi)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1294",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "daggers",
        "aikuchi",
        "tanto blades",
        "fuchi",
        "kozuka",
        "saya",
        "tsuka"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "11 7/16 in. (29.05 cm) (l.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Transcription] Saneyo saku; [Transcription] [ ][ ][ ] Irie Saneyo; [Translation] Made by Saneyo; [Translation] [unread] Irie Saneyo",
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        "79339"
    ],
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        "4018"
    ],
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        "ARM",
        "JPK"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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