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    "localId": "566",
    "label": "Dagger with Pine, Plum, and Bamboo on the Fittings",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1277"
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    "id": "566",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1277",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Dagger with Pine, Plum, and Bamboo on the Fittings",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1536 (late Edo; Meiji; Muromachi)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1277",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "daggers",
        "aikuchi",
        "tanto lade",
        "fuchi",
        "kashira",
        "menuki",
        "kozuka",
        "saya",
        "tsuka"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "8 3/4 in. (22.23 cm) (l.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Bizen school",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Transcription] Bizen Osafune...(corroded)/Tenmon go; [Transcription] Masaharu tsukuru; [Translation] ..... of Osafune",
        "Bizen province/ Tenmon 5 (1536); [Translation] Made by Masaharu"
    ],
    "RelatedObjects": 79334,
    "med": "steel, gold, East Indian ironwood, gilded copper, textile",
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        "4010",
        "6104"
    ],
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        "ARM",
        "JPK"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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