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    "localId": "36630",
    "label": "Kozuka with Flower Cart with a Praying Mantis",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.640"
}

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    "id": "36630",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.640",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with Flower Cart with a Praying Mantis",
    "description": "The cart filled with flowers is a lucky flower cart, called a \"hana kuruma.\" When shown with praying mantis, as here, the motif is meant to suggest the wheel of law. The wheel of law is a physical manifestation of Buddha's teachings.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1695-1742 (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.640",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.640_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.640_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] 顕乗作　光理; [Transliteration] Kenjô saku  Mitsumasa (kao); [Translation] Made by Kenjô",
        "Mitsumasa"
    ],
    "med": "shakudo, gold, silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6145"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.640_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "mediaId": "551eeb5603720d1d"
}