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    "localId": "2247",
    "label": "Zashiki juku doke Chushingura",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "print",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.653"
}

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    "id": "2247",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.653",
    "contentType": "print",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Zashiki juku doke Chushingura",
    "description": "Kyosai here turns \"seppuku\" (ritualized suicide) into something treated humorously: suicide by disembowelment is about to be performed on a blowfish. This print represents a scene from a play that parodies one of the most popular dramas in Japan, \"Kanadehon Chushingura.\" Based on a true story, the original play is about forty-seven loyal samurai sworn to avenge their master's death. In Act 5, the father-in-law of Kampei, one of the samurai, is robbed and murdered by a bandit.",
    "provenance": "C. Robert Snell, Oriental Arts & Antiques, Timonium, Maryland; purchased by Justine Lewis Keidel, Owings Mills, Maryland, after 1971; given to Walters Art Museum, 1991.",
    "date": "1878 (Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/95.653",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Prints",
        "woodblock prints"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_95.653_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 18.6,
            "height": 24.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "7 5/16 x 9 1/2 in. (18.57 x 24.13 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Shosho Kyosai",
    "med": "mulberry paper, pigments",
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    ],
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    ],
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}

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