Ojime: Metal, openwork, oblong bead. Metal tube for cord hole. Small geometric border at cord holes, two wide bands of diamonds-within-circle designs. Middle band of floral design w/ remnants of red, yellow, olive-green, and emerald green enamel. Depressions in metal are dark. L. 2.1 cm.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Japan
Verbatim coll. place:
Japan
Culture or time period:
Japanese
Collector:
Albert M. Bender
Collection date:
before 1933
Materials:
Metal
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Beads (pierced objects)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
1974
Context of use:
Sliding bead used to tighten the cords between the netsuke and inro.