Netsuke
- Museum number:
- 9-7581
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090007581
- Alternate number:
- 3-210 (original number), 4-370 (original number), and 5-347 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.2384
- Description:
- Netsuke: Man with horns clinging to a tree stump, his hair blowing. Branch of coral in front of him.
- 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:
- Bone (material)
- Person depicted:
- Futen (Japanese deity)
- 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 6.7 centimeters
- Comment:
- Per Robeson Accession File: In old brown wood, a man clinging to a tree stump and his hair blowing, as in a wind storm, a branch of coral before him. Coral is used by them sometimes to indicate the tropical south seas, where the monsoons sweep and whirl. Futen, the God of the Wind, caught in his own wind storm. One horn showing. He always has oni horns.
- Legacy documentation:
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