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    "localId": "23547",
    "label": "Kozuka with a Firefly and a Frog by a Stream",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.698"
}

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    "id": "23547",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.698",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with a Firefly and a Frog by a Stream",
    "description": "This kozuka depicts a firefly and a frog. Between them are stylized lines representing a stream. The artist signed the kozuka in a gold inset on the reverse.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1529-1620 (early Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.698",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm) (l.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Goto School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 後藤光乗; [Translation] Gotô Kôjô [kao]",
    "med": "shakudo, copper, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2481"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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}