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{
    "localId": "30592",
    "label": "Dagger (aikuchi) with mythological animals in lacquer and metal mountings of chickens (includes 51.1200.1-51.1200.3)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1200"
}

{
    "id": "30592",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1200",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Dagger (aikuchi) with mythological animals in lacquer and metal mountings of chickens (includes 51.1200.1-51.1200.3)",
    "provenance": "Acquired by Henry Walters before 1931",
    "date": "- 1894 (late Edo; Meiji; Muromachi)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1200",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "daggers",
        "aikuchi",
        "Tanto blade",
        "fuchi",
        "kashira",
        "menuki",
        "kozuka",
        "kogai",
        "saya",
        "tsuka"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1200_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1200_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1200_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "18 1/8 in. (46 cm) (l.) mounted aikuchi"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "style": "Mino School",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Kanehira saku; [Signature] Kiyotsugu; [Signature] Yasunori",
    "RelatedObjects": [
        "8044",
        "79354",
        "79355"
    ],
    "med": "Dark brown lacquer, steel, gold, copper alloy or sentoku, shakudo, silver, ray skin",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4410",
        "4738",
        "4471"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.1200_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "878cb7901ef52c59"
}