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{
    "localId": "11784",
    "label": "Kozuka with Kanyu on a Horse",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.635"
}

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    "id": "11784",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.635",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with Kanyu on a Horse",
    "description": "The mounted figure is the 2nd-century Chinese general Kanyu (Ch. Guan Yu [Kuan Yu]). Stories of his activities during the Three Kingdoms period are told in the 14th-century novel \"Romance of the Three Kingdoms.\" He is recognizable by his long black beard. The man behind him is his chief retainer Zhou Cang [Chow Ts'ang]. The kozuka is signed on the reverse.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1773-1829 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.635",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.635_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.635_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.635_Fnt_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm) (l.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Hamano School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 濱野直隨; [Translation] Hamano Naoyuki",
    "med": "shibuichi, gold, silver, copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2794"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.635_Back_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "mediaId": "664a822344482f2d"
}