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    "localId": "2722",
    "label": "Tsuba with Dragon and Waves",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.386"
}

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    "id": "2722",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.386",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Dragon and Waves",
    "description": "A dragon's head and part of his body appear above the central opening of this tsuba. At the bottom and left are waves. Dragons were traditional said to control the seas, so they are often depicted with waves.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1826 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.386",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 13/16 in. (7.1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Otsuki School",
    "inscriptions": "[Date] 文政九戌春彫鐫; [Transliteration] Bunsei Kyû [  ] [  ]; [Translation] Ninth year of Bunsei (1826); [Signature] 大月光興; [Translation] Ôtsuki Mitsuoki (kao)",
    "med": "silver alloy",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5018"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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