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    "localId": "34333",
    "label": "Tsuba with a Crane Soaring over Waves",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.156"
}

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    "id": "34333",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.156",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with a Crane Soaring over Waves",
    "description": "A crane soars along the upper right edge of this small tsuba, over waves at the bottom left. The motif of waves continues to the back. Cranes are symbols of longevity.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1774-ca.1861 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.156",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 3/16 in. (5.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Ishiguro School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 石黒政美彫之; [Transliteration] Ishiguro Masayoshi horu kore o; [Translation] Inscribed: This was carved by Ishiguro Masayoshi.",
    "med": "silver and gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4500"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "mediaId": "80e476f41158a46b"
}