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    "localId": "32204",
    "label": "Tsuba with Snail and Insects",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.335"
}

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    "id": "32204",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.335",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Snail and Insects",
    "description": "The variety of insects on this tsuba illustrates the sensitivity towards nature in traditional Japanese culture. Along with flowers and birds, insects can be emblematic of a specific season. The insects on the front of this tsuba are associated with summer and autumn. At the upper right is a spider, with a grasshopper and a praying mantis beneath it. A beetle and a snail are shown at the bottom.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1840-1889 (late Edo, Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.335",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsuba",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.335_MrkA_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 in. (5.1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 田中篤明; [Translation] Tanaka Tokuaki.",
    "med": "iron and silver with gold, shakudo, and shibuichi",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2759"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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