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    "localId": "40008",
    "label": "Catching Fireflies",
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    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.163"
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    "id": "40008",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.163",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Catching Fireflies",
    "description": "On a plank bridge across an iris bog, two elegant young women catch fireflies in the heat of a summer evening. Their thin kimono and handheld fans convey the feeling of the humid night. Fireflies or lightning bugs have long been celebrated in Japanese literature and poetry.\"First of the summer,from water lightning bugs' fireignited anew\" Ueda Gosengoku",
    "provenance": "Robert S. Shaull [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1990, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1926-1955 (Showa)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.163",
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    "language": "en",
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        "Painting & Drawing",
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        "scroll paintings"
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 217,
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        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 85 7/16 x W: 24 1/8 in. (217 x 61.3 cm)",
    "style": "Nihonga"
}

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    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Gyokujo",
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