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    "localId": "9069",
    "label": "Tsuba with Snowflakes and Poem",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1209.2"
}

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    "id": "9069",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1209.2",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Snowflakes and Poem",
    "description": "Incised snowflakes and flecks of gold leaf cover both sides of the tsuba. A poem about snow is incised on the left side of the front. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1866 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1209.2",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1209.2_MrkA_DD_JP09_1.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1209.2_MrkA_DD_JP09_1.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1209.2_MrkA_DD_JP09_1.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 15/16 in. (7.4 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription] 一乗翁の画[ ]につらて ; [Transliteration] Ichijô-ô no ga [ ] nitsurate; [Translation] Based on a picture by Ichijô-ô; [Date] 慶應二丙寅; [Transliteration] Keio ni hinoe tora; [Translation] Keio 2 (1866) year of the tiger; [Signature] 本郷[ ]光; [Translation] Hongo [ ]mitsu; [Poem] 朝はなや、松のなき、雲に[ ]小雪; [Transliteration] asa ha reya",
        "matsu no naki",
        "kumo ni [ ] koyuki; [Translation] morning ... pine tree ... cloud ... snow"
    ],
    "med": "silver, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5555"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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