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{
    "localId": "9410",
    "label": "Tsuba with Gate Guardian",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1241.2"
}

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    "id": "9410",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1241.2",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Tsuba with Gate Guardian",
    "description": "On the right is one of the two guardians (\"ni-ô\") who guard the main south gate at Buddhist temples in Japan. These fierce looking figures protect temples from evil spirits. This is part of a mounted set.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1850 (Edo)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1241.2",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms & Armor",
        "tsubas",
        "sword components"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1241.2_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS3_51.1241.2_Fnt_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 6.4,
            "height": 6,
            "depth": 0.4
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 1/2 x W: 2 3/8 x D: 3/16 in. (6.4 x 6 x 0.4 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Japanese",
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] 牧野春周; [Translation] Makino Haruchika (kao)",
    "med": "copper patina",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5945"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "JMA"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS3_51.1241.2_Back_DD_JP09.jpg",
    "mediaId": "cbec36b68dbb8e0f"
}