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    "localId": "17913",
    "label": "Fuchi with Crouching Lions",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1205.2"
}

{
    "id": "17913",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1205.2",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Fuchi with Crouching Lions",
    "description": "The fuchi is in the shape of two crouching lions. The upper halve of the lions is on the fuchi and the lower halves are on the koi-guchi kanagu at the top of the scabbard. An inscription on the koi-guchi kanagu explicitly calls these Western lions. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1870 (Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1205.2",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "fuchi",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1205.2_MrkA_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1205.2_MrkA_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1205.2_MrkA_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Date] 明治三庚午孟春; [Transliteration] Meiji san kanoe uma môshun; [Translation] Meiji 3 (1870)",
        "year of the horse",
        "1st month; [Inscription] 應井坂貞行君需; [Transliteration] ô Isaka Sadayuki shi ju; [Translation] commissioned by Mr. Izaka Sadayuki; [Signature] 水戸住　萩谷勝平; [Transliteration] Mito ju Hagiya Katsuhira; [Translation] living in Mito",
        "Hagiya Katsuhira"
    ],
    "med": "silver, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6751"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.1205.2_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "f8ce6f0b35884e7a"
}