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{
    "localId": "30423",
    "label": "Sword (tachi) with dark brown lacquer saya, tortoise-shell marks (includes 51.1228.1-51.1228.4)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1228"
}

{
    "id": "30423",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1228",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Sword (tachi) with dark brown lacquer saya, tortoise-shell marks (includes 51.1228.1-51.1228.4)",
    "description": "Dark brown lacquer saya with tortoise-shell markings. Mountings en suite of copper and gold, nanako grounds of fine technique. Has the sling bands and obi-tori of the tachi. Gold habaki with chrysanthemum bloom. Menuki of gold; double seppa of gold and copper, two inscriptions on fuchi; signature on left of tang, inscription on right in gold inlay. Katsumori",
    "date": "before 1596 (Meiji; Momoyama)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1228",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "long sword",
        "tachi",
        "Tachi blade",
        "tsuba",
        "fuchi",
        "kashira",
        "menuki",
        "saya",
        "tsuka"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_51.1228_DetA_DD_12.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_51.1228_DetA_DD_12.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_51.1228_DetA_DD_12.jpg",
    "imageCount": 9,
    "pageCount": 9,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "34 1/16 in. (86.5 cm) (l.) mounted tachi"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[     ] no rokuzaemonjo minamoto katsumorioite tokyo shinobugaoka tsukuru unno moritoshi haru; [Translation] Rokuzaemonjo Katsumori of the Minamoto clan",
        "-- no (place name); [Translation] Made in Shinobugaoka",
        "Tokyo by Unno Moritoshi in spring"
    ],
    "RelatedObjects": [
        "4844",
        "25393",
        "79193",
        "79197"
    ],
    "med": "Dark brown lacquer, steel, copper, gold, shakudo, tortoise-shell",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6194",
        "5761"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_51.1228_MrkC_DD_12.jpg",
    "mediaId": "71ed2a4bf949be1f"
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