netsuke: [Handwritten on card: Yoshiro - Warrior with thunderbolt in his hands & drum on his back containing the raging winds] fierce man with hair in top knot holding bag (or bell?) over left shoulder by rope to the end of which is attached a woven oblong object.
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:
Ivory (material)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Drums (membranophones) and 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.