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    "localId": "29682",
    "label": "Tsuba with Cranes and Peach Trees",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.278"
}

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    "id": "29682",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.278",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Cranes and Peach Trees",
    "description": "A crane is shown in waves at the lower right of the tsuba. Along the right and upper right is the blossoming and fruiting branch of a peach tree. A large full moon in gold is in the background. On the reverse, another branch is depicted at the upper left. A large rock fills the composition, with waves crashing into it at the lower left. Cranes and peaches are both symbols of longevity.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1866 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.278",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Date] 慶應二丙寅仲冬; [Transliteration] Keio ni hi-no-e tora chuto; [Translation] The second year of Keio (1866)",
        "year of the tiger",
        "mid-winter; [Signature] 壽親; [Translation] Toshichika"
    ],
    "med": "iron with gold, silver and copper detail",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6580"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "mediaId": "6f9f178d8ff863ad"
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