Netsuke

Museum number:

9-7866

Permalink:

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Alternate number:

5-85 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.2384

Object count:

1

Description:

Netsuke: standing female in formal dress, clutching robe with right hand. A man is seated to her left, holding bottom of her robe with his right hand.

Donor:

Estate of Geraldine C. and Kernan Robson

Collection place:

Japan

Production place:

Tōkyō Metropolis, South Kanto, Kanto region

Culture or time period:

Edo period (1603-1868)

Maker or artist:

Hakuunsai

Collector:

Geraldine C. Robson

Collection date:

before 1940

Materials:

Ivory (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:

height 4.2 centimeters

Legacy documentation: