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    "localId": "7364",
    "label": "Kashira with the Chinese Immortal Jofuku Riding a Crane",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1111"
}

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    "id": "7364",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1111",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kashira with the Chinese Immortal Jofuku Riding a Crane",
    "description": "The Chinese immortal Jofuku (Ch. Su She) is shown riding on the back of a crane and holding a book. Jofuku was sent by the emperor to discover the elixir of youth. He took with him many Chinese books. These books were said to have escaped a book burning that destroyed all other text in 212 BC. This is part of a set with Walters 51.1110.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1800 (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1111",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "fuchi",
        "kashira",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 1 5/16 in. (3.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "none",
    "med": "shibuichi, shakudo, gold, silver, and copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "16641"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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