Netsuke

Museum number:

9-7581

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Alternate number:

3-210 (original number), 4-370 (original number), and 5-347 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.2384

Object count:

1

Description:

Netsuke: Man with horns clinging to a tree stump, his hair blowing. Branch of coral in front of him.

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:

Bone (material)

Person depicted:

Futen (Japanese deity)

Object type:

ethnography

Function:

2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements

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:

height 6.7 centimeters

Comment:

Per Robeson Accession File: In old brown wood, a man clinging to a tree stump and his hair blowing, as in a wind storm, a branch of coral before him. Coral is used by them sometimes to indicate the tropical south seas, where the monsoons sweep and whirl. Futen, the God of the Wind, caught in his own wind storm. One horn showing. He always has oni horns.

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