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    "localId": "5326",
    "label": "Tsuka with Autumn Flowers",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1270.2B"
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    "id": "5326",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1270.2B",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuka with Autumn Flowers",
    "description": "The kashira has incised fringed pink flowers, which are one of the seven celebrated autumn plants. The menuki are in the shape of small bunches containing other autumn plants such as chrysanthemums and bush clovers. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "mid 19th century (late Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1270.2B",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "tsuka",
        "kashira",
        "sword components",
        "handles"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "L: 5 7/16 in. (13.8 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "none",
    "med": "silver, copper, gold, shakudo, ray skin, baleen",
    "creator_ids": [
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        "6194"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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