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Room 36 | Japan from 1850 gallery

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Japan from 1850 gallery

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Netsuke in the form of Daruma meditating

  • Details

    Associated place
    Asia Japan (place of creation)
    Date
    c. 1800
    Edo Period (1600 - 1868)
    Artist/maker
    Hara Shūmin (active 1789 - 1800) (carver)
    Associated people
    Bodhidharma (active 5th - 6th century AD) (subject)
    Material and technique
    wood, with carved decoration
    Dimensions
    3.5 x 4.2 x 3.1 cm max. (height x width x depth)
    Material index
    organicvegetal wood
    Technique index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
    Accession no.
    EA1956.3202
  • Further reading

    Impey, Oliver, Japanese Netsuke in Oxford: From the Ashmolean Museum, Pitt Rivers Museum, and the Museum of the History of Science (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1987), no. 14 on p. 17, illus. p. 17

Glossary

netsuke

  • netsuke

    The netsuke is a form of toggle that was used to secure personal items suspended on cords from the kimono sash. These items included purses, medicine cases or tobacco paraphernalia.

Location

    • currently in research collection

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