Netsuke

Museum number:

9-7844

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Alternate number:

3-144 (original number), 4-283.5 (original number), and 5-259 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.2384

Description:

Netsuke: man with masked pushed to one side of head. Holds fan with right hand. Looks down at child who clutches his sleeve.

Donor:

Estate of Geraldine C. and Kernan Robson

Collection place:

Japan

Culture or time period:

Japanese

Maker or artist:

Tomochika

Collector:

Geraldine C. Robson

Collection date:

before 1940

Materials:

Ivory (material)

Object type:

ethnography

Object class:

Masks (costume)

Function:

2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements

Production date:

1868-1940

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 4.6 centimeters

Loans:

S1970-1971 #119: Department of Art History (UC Berkeley) (April 22, 1971–April 23, 1971)

Legacy documentation: