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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, museum number 9-7568, described as Netsuke: man seated, holding book. Woman at his right, her arm around him. Signed.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, museum number 9-7548, described as Netsuke: Girl (Okame) with red lacquer skirt holds fan in right hand, leash of pet cat in left hand. Signed by Hidemasa.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, museum number 9-7730, described as Netsuke: man seated with right hand on knee, left hand on box containing tiny ivory figure.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, museum number 9-7933, described as netsuke: locust (?) eating cluster of three fruits. 2.2 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, museum number 9-8972, described as Netsuke: man and woman with water buckets. Man opens a clamshell; woman holds small basket. 4.0 cm. According to the donor's catalog: "Netsuke in ivory of a man and woman standing side by side, in village fashion, with their water buckets before the village well (well must be imagined). The man has the heavier bucket, which he has just placed on the ground. He is middle-aged and bald. The woman is young and beautiful and carries her smaller bucket. Mama-no-Tekona. The Gato-Ji Temple is old and situated at Mama of Ichikawa. It was founded by Priest Nitchō, a disciple of Nichiren, who founded the Nichiren sect of Buddhism. Nitchō left his temple in 1299. The statues in the temple gate were carved by Unkei, the greatest sculptor of Japan. Near the stone steps that lead to the temple, there is a small shrine dedicated to Mama-no-Tekona, the maiden Tekona of Mama village, created by priest Nippo in 1501 near the grave of Tekona near the village of Mama. She was a girl of exceeding beauty and lived in the reign of the Emperor Kinmei (540-571). She used to come to draw water from the well of the village, when it was said. She was clad in rough hemp and barefoot, but she was a thousand times as beautiful as a nobleman's daughter for her face was as round as the full moon and as charming as the flowers in their prime. When she drew water from the well, the people of the village were attracted to her like insects that are drawn to the fire in the summer. The young lads vied with each other, in seeking her hand, but all were disappointed. Tekona was sad to see so many young men ruined on her account, and in order to save them any more mortification she plunged herself into a river that runs by Mama. Mushimara, Takahasi, Akahito, Amabe and many other poets wrote odes in admiration of her chastity, which made her still revered, now that more than fifteen centuries have elapsed, but the people visit her little shrine, constantly from one end of the year to the other.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, museum number 9-7564, described as Netsuke: heavy man, with a tail, carrying child in his arms. Signed.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, museum number 9-7807, described as Netsuke: two women in boat; one, with long hair, standing holding an object aloft with right hand. Heads and hands are of ivory.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, museum number 9-7704, described as Netsuke: boy seated; sticking out his tongue and pointing finger toward his eye (this gesture is called Bekkako, the pulling down of the lower eyelid). Holds demon mask, in right hand, behind him. Made of wood inlaid with ivory-lined himetoshi. Signed by Shugetsu.