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    "localId": "30974",
    "label": "Kozuka with Taikôbô Fishing",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.729"
}

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    "id": "30974",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.729",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with Taikôbô Fishing",
    "description": "The 12th-century Chinese sage Taikôbô (Ch. Kiang Tsze Ya) is shown sitting on a rock, fishing. Taikôbô fished without bait because he went fishing in order to have time alone with his thoughts, not to catch fish. He became a counselor to Emperor Si Peh. The background is a fish egg pattern (\"nanakoji\"), and the kozuka has a raised rim.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1828-1904",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.729",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] On kozuka: 後藤顯乘; [Translation] Gotô Kenjô",
    "med": "shakudo, gold, silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "16328"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "mediaId": "bbb5e16d3f65cc9c"
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