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    "label": "Genjigumo ukiyo-e awase",
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    "title": "Genjigumo ukiyo-e awase",
    "description": "The great 12th-century general Taira no Tomomori ties himself to an anchor so that he may die by his own hand and not from enemy action as defeat nears in the famous sea battle at Dan-no-ura (1185). In \"The Tale of Genji,\" as her death approaches, Lady Murasaki insists on making the arrangements for her own funeral rites.",
    "provenance": "Justine Lewis Keidel [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1986, by gift.",
    "date": "1845-46 (late Edo)",
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    "dimensionsRaw": "14 13/16 x 10 1/16 in. (37.7 x 25.5 cm)",
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    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi ga; [Transcription] Genban ise-shi; [Translation] First published Ise city",
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