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{
    "localId": "26577",
    "label": "Tsuba with a Carp Leaping Out of Water",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.397"
}

{
    "id": "26577",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.397",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with a Carp Leaping Out of Water",
    "description": "On the right side of this tsuba, a carp is shown leaping from the water. Its body arches to the left, following the curve of the tsuba's edge. At the upper left is a wasp that may be the carp's prey. At the bottom, waves show where the carp exited the water. On the reverse are water and lily pads.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1860 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.397",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.397_MrkA_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.397_MrkA_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.397_MrkA_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "4 in. (10.2 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Natsuo School",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Date] Manen ka-no-e saru aki saku; [Translation] Made in the autumn of the [first year] of Manen (1860)",
        "the year of the monkey; [Signature] 万延庚申秋作　夏雄; [Translation] Natsuo [Seal]"
    ],
    "med": "iron, gold, copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "3841"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 3,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.397_MrkA_DD_JP08.jpg",
    "mediaId": "a032b0219fc844bd"
}