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{
    "localId": "2661",
    "label": "Long Sword (katana) with silver clouds and dragon (includes 51.1154.1-51.1154.4)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1154"
}

{
    "id": "2661",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1154",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Long Sword (katana) with silver clouds and dragon (includes 51.1154.1-51.1154.4)",
    "description": "Dull black lacquer saya with raised cloud scrolls. Large kojiri in the form of a silver dragon; Another forms kashira and coils around the tsuka. Silver koichu with two characters. Sank kurikata. Gold seppa and habaki. Silver dragon tsuba. Carved in blade a dragon and sanko, and inscription with bee.",
    "date": "1851 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1154",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "long sword",
        "katana",
        "Katana blade",
        "tsuba",
        "fuchi",
        "kashira",
        "saya"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_51.1154_DetA_DD_T12.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_51.1154_DetA_DD_T12.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_51.1154_DetA_DD_T12.jpg",
    "imageCount": 12,
    "pageCount": 12,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "38 9/16 in. (98 cm) (l.) mounted katana"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] Tounsai Toshimasa; [Transcription] Sen Dewa goku ju Bizen (no) suke Munetsugu tsukuru kore/ Kaei yo nen hachi gatsu kichijitsu.; [Transcription] Roo Seiju; [Translation] Munetsugu",
        "official of Bizen province",
        "living in Dewa province",
        "made this on a lucky day in the 8th month of Kaei 4 (1851); [Translation] Munetsugu",
        "official of Bizen province",
        "living in Dewa province",
        "made this on a lucky day in the 8th month of Kaei 4 (1851)"
    ],
    "RelatedObjects": [
        "33151",
        "13250"
    ],
    "med": "Steel, black lacquer, silver and gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5175",
        "6103",
        "2534"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 4,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
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    "mediaId": "dfbd63ef90dd100e"
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