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    "localId": "35444",
    "label": "Tsuba with Temple Landscape",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1230.2"
}

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    "id": "35444",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1230.2",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Temple Landscape",
    "description": "At the right of the tsuba, temple buildings rise from the shore near pine trees. Towards the back and above the hole for the kogai stands a pagoda. Waves are in the foreground at the bottom. On the reverse, plovers fly over waves. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1866 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1230.2",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 5/16 in. (5.8 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Date] 慶應丙寅年冬; [Transliteration]Keiô hinoe tora nen fuyu; [Translation] Winter of 1866",
        "year of the tiger; [Signature] 一匠中川勝實; [Translation] Isshô Nakagawa Katsuzane (kao)"
    ],
    "med": "silver, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5344"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "mediaId": "692e955d940290e9"
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