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{
    "localId": "21990",
    "label": "Dagger Depicting Tamatori Retrieving the Sacred Jewel from the Sea",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1204"
}

{
    "id": "21990",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1204",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Dagger Depicting Tamatori Retrieving the Sacred Jewel from the Sea",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1854 (Nambokucho-late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1204",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "daggers",
        "aikuchi",
        "tanto blade",
        "kogai",
        "saya",
        "tsuka"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1204_Fnt_DD_JP09%20.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1204_Fnt_DD_JP09%20.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1204_Fnt_DD_JP09%20.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "mounted blade: 10 in. (25.4 cm) (l.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Bizen School",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Translation] Place",
        "Bi... (only the first kanji remains);  [Signature] Ishiguro Masaaki;  [Signature] Otsuryuken Miboku;  [Transcription] Oju Kyogaishi Fugawa Kazunori sen",
        "Kaei nana Ko-in nen shuban;  [Translation] Carved on special order by Kyogaishi Fugawa Kazunori",
        "Kaei 7 (1854) late spring;  [Translation] Bishu province"
    ],
    "RelatedObjects": [
        "36434",
        "19558"
    ],
    "med": "steel, gold, copper, copper alloy, silver alloy, wood, textile, shakudo, shibuichi, sentoku (?)",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6144",
        "5131",
        "3247"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "ARM",
        "JPK"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.1204_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "9b70c1f9200bf150"
}