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    "label": "Hair Comb with Bats and Clouds",
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    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Hair Comb with Bats and Clouds",
    "description": "Fashionable women in Japan during the Edo period (1615–1868) wore elaborate hairstyles embellished with different types of ornaments of varying sizes and materials, including hairpins, combs, and bars. The decoration of each ornament is determined by factors such as the season, the occasion, the symbolism, or individual taste.",
    "date": "late 19th century (Edo period (1603–1868))",
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        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 6 7/8 × W: 2 3/8 × D: 3/8 in. (17.4 × 6 × 1 cm)"
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