Netsuke
- Museum number:
- 9-7586
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090007586
- Alternate number:
- 4-20 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2384
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Netsuke: man carrying water jug, seated on toad. Base of the netsuke is a seal. [handwritten editing on card replaces "netsuke" with "seal" and crossed out "of the netsuke".
- Donor:
- Estate of Geraldine C. and Kernan Robson
- Collection place:
- Japan
- Culture or time period:
- Japanese
- Collector:
- Geraldine C. Robson
- Collection date:
- before 1940
- Materials:
- Bamboo (material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements and 7.1 Writing and Records (including religious texts)
- Accession date:
- 1968
- Context of use:
- [text crossed out on card] 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:
- height 4.6 centimeters
- Legacy documentation: