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    "localId": "32314",
    "label": "Dai Nippon meisho kagami",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.434"
}

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    "id": "32314",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.434",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Dai Nippon meisho kagami",
    "description": "On this print, Raiko (Minamoto no Yorimitsu) slays Shutendoji (the Great Drunkard Boy) with the help of his four retainers, Watanabe no Tsuna, Urabe no Suyetake, Usui Sadamitsu, and Sakata no Kintoki (shi-ten). The title is in a vertical rectangular cartouche on the left at the top. A text is attached on the left closest to the corner of the print. The signature and seal are in a vertical cartouche.",
    "provenance": "Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Snell, Jr. [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1991, by gift.",
    "date": "1886 (Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.434",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "color woodcuts"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_95.434_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Utagawa School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Oju Yoshitoshi; [Seal] Taiso",
    "med": "pigments on mulberry paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "14898",
        "4514"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JPK"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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