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{
    "localId": "79553",
    "label": "Tsuka with Cherry Blossoms and Wrestling Gate Guardians",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1295.3B"
}

{
    "id": "79553",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1295.3B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuka with Cherry Blossoms and Wrestling Gate Guardians",
    "description": "The kashira is decorated with cherry blossoms that match the accompanying fuchi. The menuki is a playful depiction of two Buddhist temple gate guardians (\"niô\") arm-wrestling. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1850 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1295.3B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsuka",
        "kashira",
        "menuki",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1295.3b_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1295.3b_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1295.3b_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 4 5/16 in. (11 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription] In ink on open end: san yi jû yon; [Translation] three yi fourteen (repeated twice)",
    "med": "silver, shakudo, sentoku, ray skin, baleen",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6194",
        "6112"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.1295.3b_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "62a90dd9b209e049"
}