Netsuke

Museum number:
9-12507
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21090012507
Alternate number:
3902 (previous number (Albert Bender’s number)) and 3909 (previous number (Design Dept.))
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Netsuke: Carved ivory, depicting itinerant entertainer (manzai), one foot on drum (taiko), smiling and holding Kyogen mask to one side (Kyogen is the comic interlude of a Noh performance). The mask represents Hyottoko, a man with twisted mouth, popping eye, and lump on forehead. Dark stone inlaid studs on top and bottom rims of drum. Signature on bottom of drum. Some detail in black paint. Cord holes on
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan
Collector:
Albert M. Bender
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, accession number 9-12507, described as Netsuke: Carved ivory, depicting itinerant entertainer (manzai), one foot on drum (taiko), smiling and holding Kyogen mask to one side (Kyogen is the comic interlude of a Noh performance). The mask represents Hyottoko, a man with twisted mouth, popping eye, and lump on forehead. Dark stone inlaid studs on top and bottom rims of drum. Signature on bottom of drum. Some detail in black paint. Cord holes onDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, accession number 9-12507, described as Netsuke: Carved ivory, depicting itinerant entertainer (manzai), one foot on drum (taiko), smiling and holding Kyogen mask to one side (Kyogen is the comic interlude of a Noh performance). The mask represents Hyottoko, a man with twisted mouth, popping eye, and lump on forehead. Dark stone inlaid studs on top and bottom rims of drum. Signature on bottom of drum. Some detail in black paint. Cord holes onDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Netsuke, accession number 9-12507, described as Netsuke: Carved ivory, depicting itinerant entertainer (manzai), one foot on drum (taiko), smiling and holding Kyogen mask to one side (Kyogen is the comic interlude of a Noh performance). The mask represents Hyottoko, a man with twisted mouth, popping eye, and lump on forehead. Dark stone inlaid studs on top and bottom rims of drum. Signature on bottom of drum. Some detail in black paint. Cord holes on

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