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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