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{
    "localId": "6862",
    "label": "Kozuka with Kanzan and Jittoku",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.686"
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    "id": "6862",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.686",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with Kanzan and Jittoku",
    "description": "Kanzan (Ch. Hanshan [Hanshan]) and Jittoku (Ch. Shide [Shih Te]) are a pair of Zen eccentrics who lived at a monastery on Mt. Tendai in China during the Tang [T'ang] period (618-907). They spoke to each other in a nonsense language that no one else understood. Kanzan is always shown holding a scroll, which he is explaining to Jittoku. Jittoku carries a broom because he worked cleaning the monastery kitchen. Kanzan stands in front with his scroll and Jittoku is behind holding a bucket. His broom lays on the ground.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1824-1862 (Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.686",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.686_MrkA_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm) (l.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Goto School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 後藤法橋一乗; [Translation] Gotô Hôkyô Ichijô",
    "med": "shakudo, gold, silver and copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4468"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.686_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "1413b41c705bd712"
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