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{
    "localId": "22491",
    "label": "Short sword (wakizashi) with a large silver snake coiled around pine bark saya (includes 51.1269.1-51.1269.5)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1269"
}

{
    "id": "22491",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1269",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Short sword (wakizashi) with a large silver snake coiled around pine bark saya (includes 51.1269.1-51.1269.5)",
    "description": "Wood saya worked with pine bark and large silver snake coiling arond it. Mountings of silver with gold detail; Tsuba with dragon clutching a jewel. Gold habaki. Kozuka handle of sentoku with lizard and orchids. Very heavy blade with the double-edged sword of the fierce Buddhist deity Fudo Myo-o, a dragon coiled around it, is engraved on the blade. Inscribed \"Yasutsugu (Third Generation) Made in Tokyo, around 1665.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "Ca.1800 (Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1269",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "short swords",
        "wakizashi",
        "wakizashi blade",
        "tsuba",
        "fuchi",
        "kashira",
        "kozuka",
        "kogai",
        "saya",
        "tsu"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_51.1269_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_51.1269_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_51.1269_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 26 9/16 in. (67.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] Kikokusai Nakagawa Yasunori; [Transcription] Yasutsugu motte Namban tetsu oite Bushu tsukuru kore; [Translation] Yasutsugu made this in Bushu province",
        "using Namban (Western) steel; [Transcription] Oe Masakuni",
        "zoku yo sei shi",
        "Kami (no) katana (no) tame shi",
        "goto",
        "Hitotsuyanagi Tomotoshi; [Translation] See remarks"
    ],
    "RelatedObjects": [
        "13718",
        "21471",
        "9081"
    ],
    "med": "Steel, silver, gold, copper alloy (sentoku), wood, lacquer",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4406",
        "4738",
        "6161"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_51.1269_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "8a6820b5bf0aec67"
}