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    "localId": "27785",
    "label": "Tsuba with Hotei and His Boy Attendant in a Boat under a Full Moon",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.282"
}

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    "id": "27785",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.282",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Hotei and His Boy Attendant in a Boat under a Full Moon",
    "description": "Hotei relaxes in a boat at the bottom of this tsuba, looking towards the moon on the upper left. Hotei is one of the seven gods of good fortune and is usually depicted as a jolly old man. An attendant accompanies him in this scene. On the reverse are two seals identifying the artist.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1725-1761 (mid Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.282",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7.3,
            "height": 7,
            "depth": 0.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 7/8 x 2 3/4 x 3/16 in. (7.34 x 7.03 x 0.55 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 一蠶堂; [Translation] Issando; [Seal] 乗意; [Translation] Joi; [Seal] 永春; [Translation] Nagaharu",
    "med": "iron, silver, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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