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{
    "localId": "27771",
    "label": "Incense Burner Dedicated to Konpira Daigongen",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2216"
}

{
    "id": "27771",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2216",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Incense Burner Dedicated to Konpira Daigongen",
    "description": "Konpira Daigongen is the protector of sailors and maritime trade.",
    "provenance": "Heber R. Bishop Sale, American Art Association, 1906, no. 1012;  Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1906, by purchase;  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1816 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.2216",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "incense burners",
        "censors"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.2216_Fnt_SL_T.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.2216_Fnt_SL_T.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_54.2216_Fnt_SL_T.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "37 3/4 in. (95.9 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Transcription] Bunka ju san...;  [Transcription] Ho/Osakaya Ichitsuke/Nakamuraya Tashichi/Kaneya Yashichi/no///Kochiya Matsutsuke/Kyoya Takezo/Muraya.../Tamaya Muhyakukichi/Edoya Tadashichi; Konpira Daigongen;  [Translation] Fifth month of Bunka 13 (1816);  [Translation] Presented by Osaka-ya Ichisuke",
        "Nakamura-ya Tashichi",
        "Kane-ya Yashichi",
        "Kochi-ya Matsutsuke",
        "Kyo-ya Takezo",
        "Maru-ya (?)",
        "Tama-ya Muhyakukichi",
        "Edo-ya Tadashichi"
    ],
    "med": "cast bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6194"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JPK"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "mediaId": "0aaf7aa8de77574e"
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