Netsuke
- Museum number:
- 9-7570
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090007570
- Alternate number:
- 4-177 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2384
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Netsuke: dragon, apparently changing into a lotus which has a stem and leaf attached. By Toyomasa. Height: 2.5 cm, Width/breadth: 4.5 cm According to the donor's catalog: "Netsuke of wood, inlaid with translucent horn for eye. Depicts a dragon curled around the inside of a tangerine. The projections provided by the stem and leaves of the fruit serve as the himetoshi (holes for the string that attach netsuke to kimono) for this piece. Signed by Toyomasa, who worked in the mid nineteenth century.
- Donor:
- Estate of Geraldine C. and Kernan Robson
- Collection place:
- Japan
- Production place:
- Kyōto, Kyoto Prefecture, Kansai region
- Culture or time period:
- Edo period (1603-1868)
- Maker or artist:
- Toyomasa
- Collector:
- Geraldine C. Robson
- Collection date:
- before 1940
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Production date:
- 1800-1868
- Accession date:
- 1968
- Context of use:
- Toggle to be attached to the end of a cord and thrust through the sash of a kimono for the support of a purse, pouch or lacquer box.
- Department:
- Cat. 9 - Asia (incl. Russia east of Urals)
- Dimensions:
- width 4.5 centimeters and height 2.5 centimeters
- Comment:
- Stolen 1981. Returned from England via UCPD 6-1-81.
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