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    "localId": "20960",
    "label": "Kozuka with Chinese Immortal and a Crane",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.820"
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    "id": "20960",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.820",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with Chinese Immortal and a Crane",
    "description": "The standing figure is a Chinese immortal, dressed in the robes of a Chinese scholar. Both the pine tree beneath which he stands and the crane at his feet are symbols of longevity.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1741-1830 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.820",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm) (l.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Sekijoken School; Oyama School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] On kozuka: 赤城軒　元孚; [Translation]  Sekijôken Motozane (kao)",
    "med": "shibuichi, gold, silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5691"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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