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    "localId": "34210",
    "label": "Kozuka with a Cricket and a Fan",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.705"
}

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    "id": "34210",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.705",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with a Cricket and a Fan",
    "description": "A large cricket is on the right of the composition. To the left is a fan. The characters on the fan are the start of a famous poem that uses all the sounds in the Japanese syllabary. The artist signed the kozuka on the reverse.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1850 (late Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.705",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.705_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm) (l.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 柳北春親; [Translation] Ryûhoku Haruchika",
    "med": "shibuichi, copper, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6123"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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