3-179 (original number), 4-333 (original number), and 5-307 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.2384
Description:
Netsuke: seated Oni, contemplating mask of Okame which he rests on one foot.
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)
Person depicted:
Okame (Japanese deity)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
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 3.1 centimeters
Comment:
Per Robeson Accession: In old ivory, Oni contemplating mask of Okame. He is looking at it wistfully, for he had picked it up with the idea of disturbing its good-natured placidity, but such was the power of its radiation rays of good nature that his demon attempt was frustrated.