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    "localId": "32849",
    "label": "Tsuba with a Chinese Landscape",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.380"
}

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    "id": "32849",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.380",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with a Chinese Landscape",
    "description": "The scene depicted on this tsuba is reminiscent of Chinese landscape paintings. On the right, two figures walk up a mountain path. These are a scholar and his servant. They are going to a mountain hut, where the scholar will have solitude to study. Mountains and trees are shown along the right at top edge. At the bottom, a man in a boat is shown in a river. On the reverse are suggestions of the landscape.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1825 (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.380",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.380_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.380_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.380_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 菊川南甫; [Translation] Kikugawa Nanpo; [Seal] 秀久; [Translation] Hisahide",
    "med": "iron, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6039"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.380_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "mediaId": "24cf92a2acff8a0e"
}