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    "localId": "18832",
    "label": "Tsuba with Cranes and Bamboo",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.256"
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    "id": "18832",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.256",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Cranes and Bamboo",
    "description": "Both cranes and bamboo are signs of longevity and often used as a felicitous motif. On this tsuba, three cranes stand near young bamboo leaves. A fourth crane is shown in flight at the upper left. A stand of bamboo is on the right. Bamboo also appears on the reverse.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "18th century (?) (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.256",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7.2,
            "height": 6.9,
            "depth": 0.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 13/16 x W: 2 11/16 x D: 1/8 in. (7.19 x 6.9 x 0.35 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "none",
    "med": "iron, gold, silver, copper",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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