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    "localId": "8466",
    "label": "Tsuba with a Carp",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.248"
}

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    "id": "8466",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.248",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with a Carp",
    "description": "A carp is depicted swimming along the lower right edge of this tsuba. Carps are felicitous symbols and are associated with some of the Shinto gods. The reverse of the tsuba shows a lily pond.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1848-1898 (late Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.248",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7.9,
            "height": 7.2,
            "depth": 0.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 1/8 x 2 13/16 x 3/16 in. (7.9 x 7.2 x 0.54 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Natsuo School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 夏雄; [Translation] Natsuo (kao)",
    "med": "iron, gold, silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3841"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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