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{
    "localId": "33082",
    "label": "Fifty-Three Pairings along the Tōkaidō Road",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.561"
}

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    "id": "33082",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.561",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Fifty-Three Pairings along the Tōkaidō Road",
    "description": "This print depicts the legend of the feather robe- A fairy flying away with a robe of feathers (\"hagoromo\"). The upper part of the print is the title of the series in large formal characters reserved in a black rectangle; on the left is a decorative panel with the name of the post-station and a short text.",
    "provenance": "C. Robert Snell, Oriental Arts & Antiques, Timonium, Maryland; purchased by Justine Lewis Keidel, Owings Mills, Maryland, after 1971; given to Walters Art Museum, 1991.",
    "date": "ca. 1845-1846 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.561",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "color woodcuts"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_95.561_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_95.561_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Utagawa School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Hiroshige ga; [Transcription] Nina no ura hagoromo matsu no urai; [Translation] The Origin of Robe of Feathers in Nino no Ura",
    "med": "ink and color on mulberry paper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4238"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JPK"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3514"
    ]
}

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    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_95.561_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "8ba39b80dff9add1"
}