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    "localId": "16289",
    "label": "Tsuba with Autumn Leaves",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.342"
}

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    "id": "16289",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.342",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Autumn Leaves",
    "description": "Surrounding the central opening of this tsuba is an openwork design of autumn leaves. At the upper right is a maple leaf. Two chestnuts leaves fill the lower right and the bottom edge of the tsuba. A pine cone and a gingko leaf complete the motif.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1780-1800 (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.342",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7,
            "height": 0.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "2 3/4 x 3/16 in. (7 x 0.5 cm) (diam. x d.)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Signature] 武州住　正克; [Transliteration] bushû jû/masakatsu saku; [Translation] Made by Maskatsu",
        "residing in Bushû"
    ],
    "med": "iron, gold",
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        "4286"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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