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{
    "localId": "79654",
    "label": "Kozuka with Gate Guardian",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1241.4"
}

{
    "id": "79654",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1241.4",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with Gate Guardian",
    "description": "The figure on the kozuka is one of the two guardians (\"ni-ô\") who guard the main south gate at Buddhist temples in Japan. These fierce looking figures protect temples from evil spirits. 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/51.1241.4",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1241.4_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1241.4_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1241.4_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 8 11/16 in. (22.1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 牧野春周; [Translation] Makino Haruchika; [Seal] Unread",
    "med": "copper patina",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5945"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 4,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.1241.4_MrkB_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "29f43ebd1bc98bb3"
}