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    "localId": "375",
    "label": "Kashira with a Gourd and a Horse",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.971"
}

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    "id": "375",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.971",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kashira with a Gourd and a Horse",
    "description": "The kashira is designed in the shape of a gourd. A horse is shown emerging from the side of the gourd. This is an illustration of the idiom \"like a horse coming out of a gourd,\" which is used to describe unexpected things. The saying may have developed from stories of the Chinese immortal Chokaro (Ch. Zhang Guo [Chang Kuo]) who carried his magical mule in a gourd. The kashira is part of a set with Walters 51.970.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "19th century (?) (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.971",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kashira",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 1 7/16 in. (3.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "none",
    "med": "copper, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5184"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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