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    "localId": "467",
    "label": "Kozuka with Cherry Tree and Swallows",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1295.4"
}

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    "id": "467",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1295.4",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with Cherry Tree and Swallows",
    "description": "Two swallows are shown flying near a blooming cherry tree. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1850 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1295.4",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "kozuka",
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    ],
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    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 7 1/2 in. (19 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 是知; [Translation] Koretomo (kao)",
    "med": "silver, shakudo, gold,sentoku",
    "creator_ids": [
        "1890"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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