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    "localId": "21488",
    "label": "Kozuka with Three Birds",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.790"
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    "id": "21488",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.790",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with Three Birds",
    "description": "Three birds are shown flying across the face of the kozuka. The artist's name and artistic name are inscribed on the reverse.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1814-1882 (late Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.790",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm) (l.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] On kozuka: 和田一真　政龍; [Translation]  Wada Isshin Masatatsu; [Number] On sticker with red trellis border: 886",
    "med": "shibuichi, gilt, copper",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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