Collection place: Kansai region, Honshu, Japan / Year collected: [Missing] / Function: 1.3 Agriculture and Animal Husbandry - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Axe, accession number 9-9131, described as axe; for lumbering; double-bladed with wooden handle; lumbering axe; commercially manufactured

Hearst Museum object titled Bucket, accession number 9-9092, described as bucket; cylindrical water holder, wooden with split bamboo hoops; holding water; used by cooper; made commercially

Hearst Museum object titled Cocoon cutter, accession number 9-9281, described as Cocoon cutter; scoop shaped wooden box with rotating wood handle attached to a pointed steel shaft; length 35 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Cultivator, accession number 9-9304, described as Cultivator; wooden frame with spiked steel axe arrangement; inscriptions on frame; length 135cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Dredger, accession number 9-9155, described as dredger; hoe-shaped tool; steel blade with wood handle; for dredging irrigation ditches and for sifting material from water; made by professional tool maker

Hearst Museum object titled Dredging tool, accession number 9-9126, described as tool; wooden handle hoe-like dredge; with iron blade; dredger for irrigation ditches

Hearst Museum object titled Grinding stones, accession number 9-9285a,b, described as Mill; two circular grinding stones; diameter 30.5 cm each.

Hearst Museum object titled Hoe, accession number 9-9154, described as hoe; pitch-fork-shaped tool; iron blade with wood handle; for hoeing and piling straw; manufactured; this was a principle tool because of Japanese preference for pulling tools; no longer in use; of Meiji period (1868-1912)