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{
    "localId": "40138",
    "label": "Tsuba with Temple Bell and Sparrows",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1233.2"
}

{
    "id": "40138",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1233.2",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Temple Bell and Sparrows",
    "description": "At the right of the tsuba is a temple bell surrounded by cherry blossoms. Two sparrows fly across the upper left. On the reverse, driving rain obscures the scene of a building in the background with a pine tree on the left. At the bottom is a pine branch supported by logs. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1855 (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1233.2",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1233.2_MrkA_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1233.2_MrkA_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Date] On bell: 安政二乙卯; [Transliteration] Ansei ni kinoto u; [Translation] Ansei 2 (1855)",
        "year of the rabbit; [Signature] 利廣; [Translation] Toshihiro (kao)"
    ],
    "med": "shakudo, copper, silver, gold",
    "creator_ids": [
        "16500"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.1233.2_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "beeef9b871c1e8a2"
}