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    "localId": "13424",
    "label": "Tsuba with Bamboo",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1279.2"
}

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    "id": "13424",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1279.2",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Bamboo",
    "description": "The front and back of this tsuba are plain. Bamboo is incised along the edge. The artist's signature is on the left edge, under the cut away opening for the kozuka. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1830-1894 (late Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1279.2",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 秀楽; [Translation] Shûraku (kao)",
    "med": "shakudo",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5038"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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