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{
    "localId": "19056",
    "label": "Tsuba with Autumn Grasses",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1244.2"
}

{
    "id": "19056",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1244.2",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Autumn Grasses",
    "description": "This tsuba is decorated with three of the celebrated autumn grasses. On the front are arrowroot and pampas grass. On the reverse is mist flower. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1871 (Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1244.2",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1244.2_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1244.2_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1244.2_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Date] 明治四辛未仲夏; [Transliteration] Meiji yon kanoto hitsuji chûka; [Translation] Meiji 4 (1871)",
        "year of the sheep",
        "mid summer; [Signature] 龍青眠　壽矩; [Translation] Ryûseimin Toshinori (kao)"
    ],
    "med": "shakudo, gold, nigurome",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4263"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.1244.2_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "bdece859547ad18c"
}