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    "localId": "9759",
    "label": "Tsuba with Birds in a Spring Willow",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.364"
}

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    "id": "9759",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.364",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Birds in a Spring Willow",
    "description": "A tree trunk is shown on the left side of this tsuba. One bird is in the branches at the top of the tree. A second bird is sitting on the trunk at the left. The second bird is depicted in a silhouette cut-out that also forms the opening for the utility knife. On the reverse is a stream and the moon.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1846-1876 (late Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.364",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.364_MrkB_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 3/8 in. (6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 一家式; [Translation] Ikkashiki; [Signature] 壽叟法眼; [Translation] Jusô Hôgen (kao)",
    "med": "copper, gold, silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6968"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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}