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    "localId": "40812",
    "label": "Fuchi with Plum Tree Branches",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1166.2A"
}

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    "id": "40812",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1166.2A",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Fuchi with Plum Tree Branches",
    "description": "The plum tree branches depicted on the fuchi form part of a larger composition with the matching koi-guchi kanagu on the scabbard. Plums are the first flower to blossom in the spring. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "18th-19th century (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1166.2A",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "fuchi",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1166.2a_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 3/16 in. (3 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 加藤十か七張る / 井上元長作; [Transliteration] Kato Jûkashichi haru / Inoue Motonaga saku; [Translation] Designed by Kato Jûkashichi / made by Inoue Motonaga",
    "med": "gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3673",
        "3191"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "mediaId": "ca8729263cc03c54"
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