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Hearst Museum object titled Figurine, accession number 9-7804, described as Figure of fish with bulging eyes, extremely long, fan-shaped tail. 6.5 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Figurine, accession number 9-7801, described as figure of man (caucasian) standing, holding spectacles in right hand, left hand inside his vest. 11.5 cm.; with base, 19.1 cm.
Hearst Museum object titled Mics. pieces, accession number 9-7796, described as five miscellaneous pieces (one piece amber, two netsuke bases, 2 pieces carved ivory)
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, accession number 9-7511, described as Netsuke: man forging sword with an apprentice beside him.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, accession number 9-7460, described as Netsuke: stylized orange decorated with cloud pattern. Inside orange, two men seated at a table; playing Go. According to the donor's catalog: "Netsuke in old ivory of what is intended for an orange—leaving the perceptions somewhat vague about it—by reason of the cloud pattern with which the orange is richly embroidered—the cloud pattern is [untranscribable] the symbol of mysticism. This same orange has an 'seif - de - bouey' through which one glimpses two old men seated before a go-ban table with the black and white "ishi" plainly visible. Once in a grove there grew an orange tree. Its fruit was imposing particularly turo—which the master left, on the tree where they hung, for a long time in monumental bloom remaining fresh with no sign of decay. One day, the master made a circular cut, into the orange of our new netsuke and—outwalked two sages who immediately began an alisorting game of go - at a nearby table. After a awhile, one of the orange men drew [untranscribable] his robe, root shaped like a dragon—in which the two mounted—and ascended to an overhanging cloud. In netsuke's they are represented at their go ban table neither or without the orange.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, accession number 9-7778, described as netsuke: standing old man with beard. Holds hollow, decorated ball with small loose wooden ball inside.
Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, accession number 9-7931, described as Netsuke: barefoot bald man holding a staff with rings in his right hand, an open fan in his left. 4.9 cm. ••According to the donor's catalog: "Netsuke in ivory of a man, standing. He is bald-robed—and-bare-footed. In his right hand he holds a shakujo (a staff with rings) and in his left an open large fan—which semi-conceals his face—which is smiling. This Daimon was the original ventriloquist. The Nanuta Bushi (orginally Fushi, meaning musical) is the ventriloquist evolution from Fushi—meaning musical— Nanuta, the old name for Osaka in distinction from Edo Bushi (Tokyo) the rural school of ventriloquists. The Buddhist priests used to carry a shakujo to warn the insects on their paths against being crushed by their bare feet—the feet bare also to lessen the danger to the insects. The ventriloquist shakes his shakujo to warn his audience of the approaching joke and laughs behind his fan—for the approaching joke, it being considered by the Japanese bad taste to laugh openly, in the face of someone else. It also is considered bad taste ever to point with the finger—it must be done with some object held in the hand (like a pen). Notice: Image restricted due to its potentially sensitive nature. Contact Museum to request access.
Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, accession number 9-7729, described as Netsuke: tall man holding frog on left shoulder.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, accession number 9-8968, described as netsuke: bearded man with large hat puts arrow to bow. Quiver with curled end on his back. 10.4 cm.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, accession number 9-7906, described as Netsuke in wood of a man standing. At one side he carries a sword, at the other side there stands a little boy. The man wears a broad cap. ••According to the donor's catalog: "Netsuke in wood of a man standing. At one side he carries a sword, at the other side there stands a little boy. The man wears a broadcap. Manamoto no Mitsunaka (AD 912-997). A noble who held high office being a garrison general and a skilled archer. His parental attitude was one of great severity even for the merciless times in which he lived. Being dissatisfied with the slow progress of one of his sons at the monastery of Hieizan, he was on the point of killing him, but stayed his hand merely to order his retainer Nakamitsu to give the beheading blow. Then came the savior in the person of the retainer's son who begged his father to kill him in the place of the young lord—which the distressed father did, allowing the young lord to escape to the Hieizan to tell of the loyalty of Nakamitsu and so win the admiration of the abbot that he busied himself to get Mitsunaka reconciled to his ignorant time-wasting son because of the loyalty of a retainer.

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