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    "localId": "31959",
    "label": "Kozuka with Scene from Dôjôji",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.866"
}

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    "id": "31959",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.866",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with Scene from Dôjôji",
    "description": "On the left of the kozuka is a man on the beach running from a woman in the water whose lower half has transformed into a dragon. This scene is drawn from the Dôjôji engi emaki, in which a jealous woman turns into a dragon as she chases a monk.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1816-1856 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.866",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Goto School",
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] 紋栄乗; [Transliteration] Mon Eijô; [Translation] Design by Eijô; [Signature] 光晃; [Translation] Mitsuaki (kao)",
    "med": "shakudo, gold, silver, copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6118"
    ],
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        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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