Netsuke
- Museum number:
- 9-7778
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090007778
- Accession number:
- Acc.2384
- Description:
- netsuke: standing old man with beard. Holds hollow, decorated ball with small loose wooden ball inside.
- Donor:
- Estate of Geraldine C. and Kernan Robson
- Collection place:
- Japan
- Culture or time period:
- Japanese
- Collector:
- Geraldine C. Robson
- Collection date:
- before 1940
- Materials:
- Wood (plant material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Netsukes
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- 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:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Dimensions:
- height 10.5 centimeters and height 6.1 centimeters
- Loans:
- S1970-1971 #41: Department of Art History (UC Berkeley)/Colette Biane (November 3, 1970–November 3, 1970)
- Legacy documentation:
-