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    "localId": "38829",
    "label": "Kozuka with Carp and Water Milfoil",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.886"
}

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    "id": "38829",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.886",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Kozuka with Carp and Water Milfoil",
    "description": "A large carp is depicted swimming amongst water milfoil. Carp are considered an auspicious motif.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1860-1919 (late Edo-Meiji)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.886",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "kozuka",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 3 3/4 in. (9.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 岩本寛斎造; [Transliteration] Iwamoto Kansai tsukuru; [Translation] Made by Iwamoto Kansai",
    "med": "shibuichi, silver, copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6297"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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