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    "localId": "24345",
    "label": "Tsuba with a Sea Bream and Plum Branch",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.398"
}

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    "id": "24345",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.398",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with a Sea Bream and Plum Branch",
    "description": "At the lower right of this tsuba is a sea bream (\"tai\") and a plum branch. The fish is being represented here as food, not as a living animal. On the reverse are sea shells.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1829-1898 (late Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.398",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.398_Back_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 芳園 鐫; [Transliteration] Hôen kizamu; [Translation] Engraved by Hôen",
    "med": "sentoku, gold, copper, silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "2479"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "mediaId": "2e5fff2caa1755b4"
}