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    "localId": "9371",
    "label": "Buddhist temple gong",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1397"
}

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    "id": "9371",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1397",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Buddhist temple gong",
    "description": "Buddhist temple gong with brocade covered straw ring;  leather and bamboo striker, inscription incised around exterior rim",
    "provenance": "Bought at the American Art Galleries, New York in 1905 Thomas Waggaman sale",
    "date": "1832 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1397",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "kinsu"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_54.1397_PcACFnt_NG_1529.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_54.1397_PcACFnt_NG_1529.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 26.3,
            "height": 39.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Gong H: 10 3/8 × Diam: 15 5/8 in. (26.3 × 39.62 cm); Wooden Base H: 3 15/16 × W: 10 5/16 × D: 11 1/4 in. (10 × 26.2 × 28.6 cm)."
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "tenpo san nen [ ][ ] ni gatsu/nenposan tenpaiji dainichido [ ][ ] [ ][ ] [ ][ ]/myokoin koen [ ]; [Translation]  In the second month of 1832",
        "Myokoin Koen (priest) made this on behalf of the Dainichido (monk's hall) of the Tenpaiji (temple)",
        "Nenposan."
    ],
    "med": "Bronze with brocade covered straw ring and leather and bamboo striker",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6194"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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