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{
    "localId": "40618",
    "label": "Kozuka with the Immortal Gama",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.821"
}

{
    "id": "40618",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.821",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with the Immortal Gama",
    "description": "This kozuka shows the Taoist immortal Gama, with a three-legged frog sitting on his head. Gama's spirit was able to leave his body to wander and once returned to find the body unfit. He put his spirit into the nearest creature, which was a frog. On the reverse is a waterfall and the artist's signature.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 18th-early 19th century (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.821",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.821_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.821_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.821_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[inscription] 行年六十六; [Transliteration] gyônen rokujûroku; [Translation] Sixty-six years old; [Signature] 橘川元隆; [Translation] Tachikawa Mototaka; [Number] On sticker with blue border: 939",
    "med": "shibuichi, gold, silver (?)",
    "creator_ids": [
        "16640"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 3,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.821_MrkA_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "d7d88c8a570232ab"
}