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    "localId": "18181",
    "label": "Tsuba with Three Samurai Attacking a Courtier",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.287"
}

{
    "id": "18181",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.287",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Three Samurai Attacking a Courtier",
    "description": "On the right of this tsuba, a group of three samurai attack a courtier. The body of the rightmost samurai extends over the edge of the tsuba and is completed on the back. This scene is probably a reference to an episode from a story.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1696-1769 (mid Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.287",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.287_Back_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.287_Back_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 13/16 in. (7.2 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Ishiguro School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 政隨; [Translation] Shôzui",
    "med": "sentoku, shibuichi, gold, shakudo, copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6114"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 3,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.287_MrkA_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "mediaId": "525413bf33260bcd"
}