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{
    "localId": "40352",
    "label": "Kozuka with a Demon and a Thatched Hut",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.674"
}

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    "id": "40352",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.674",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with a Demon and a Thatched Hut",
    "description": "At the left of this composition, a demon (\"oni\") is seated on the ground. He appears to be removing a thorn from his foot. Near him on the right are a hut and a tree. Demons regularly  appear in Japanese art and are often depicted in a humorous fashion.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "19th century (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.674",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.674_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 7/8 in. (9.9 cm) (l.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Hamano School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 乙柳軒　味墨　政芳; [Translation] Otsuryûken Miboku Masayoshi [kao]; [Sticker] Edged with a blue trellis pattern: 395",
    "med": "shibuichi, silver, gold, copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3482"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.674_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "mediaId": "9e6a4803ef43fa36"
}