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{
    "localId": "21358",
    "label": "Tsuba with Morning Glories",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1259.2"
}

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    "id": "21358",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1259.2",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Morning Glories",
    "description": "Morning glories growing on a trellis on depicted on the right side of the tsuba. The same motif is shown on the left side of the reverse. Morning glories are associated with autumn. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1850-1900 (late Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1259.2",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1259.2_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1259.2_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7,
            "height": 2.1,
            "depth": 1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Tsuba: H: 2 3/4 x W: 13/16 x D: 3/8 in. (7 x 2.1 x 1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 秀宗; [Translation] Hidemune (kao)",
    "med": "shibuichi, gold, silver, shakudo",
    "creator_ids": [
        "16484"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "mediaId": "726d7f92c70f851c"
}