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    "localId": "35493",
    "label": "Tsuba with Lovers Behind Sliding Doors",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.399"
}

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    "id": "35493",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.399",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Lovers Behind Sliding Doors",
    "description": "This tsuba depicts the scene in a garden immediately outside a home. At the right is a building, with a veranda and rice paper doors. At the left, a water basin sits on a stump before a reed fence. Behind the fence, a cherry tree is shown in bloom. In the foreground at the bottom are the rock and step leading to the house. The doors are moveable. When opened, they reveal a scene of two lovers inside the house. Along the bottom of the reverse is a stream with a bridge and birds.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1830 (Edo period)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.399",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.399_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.399_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.399_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 8.3,
            "height": 7.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 1/4 × W: 3 in. (8.3 × 7.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Date] 天保元庚寅仲春; [Transliteration] Tenpô gen tsuchi-no-e tora chûshun; [Translation] second month in the first year of Tenpo (1830)",
        "the year of the tiger; [Signature] 石黒政常; [Translation] Ishiguro Masatsune"
    ],
    "dynasty": "Edo period",
    "med": "iron, copper alloy, gold, gold-copper alloy, silver, copper, gold alloy",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3407"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.399_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "cd503fa6becc822f"
}