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    "localId": "27363",
    "label": "Box for Inkstone and Writing Implements (suzuri bako)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.190"
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    "id": "27363",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.190",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Box for Inkstone and Writing Implements (suzuri bako)",
    "description": "The box is decorated in gold lacquer to depict stylized waves. The character \"nezame\" written inside the lid suggests a literary reference for the waves-to a 12th-century love story, \"Awake at Night\" (\"Yoru no Nezame\").",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "early 19th century (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/67.190",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Lacquer & Inlay",
        "suzuri bako",
        "writing instruments",
        "boxes"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_67.190_PcABFnt_NG_2990.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 21.6,
            "height": 23.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "8 1/2 x 9 5/16 in. (21.6 x 23.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "Nezame; [Translation] Awake at Night",
    "med": "black and gold lacquer, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JPK"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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