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Room 37 | Japan 1600-1850 gallery

Discover the arts of the Edo period (1600-1868) from porcelain to lacquer to painting.

Japan 1600-1850 gallery

Galleries : 55 objects

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Netsuke depicting a horse caught in a spider's web

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    Associated place
    Asia › Japan (place of creation)
    Date
    18th century (1701 - 1800)
    Material and technique
    ivory, with carved decoration
    Dimensions
    3.6 x 4.1 x 1.3 cm (height x width x depth)
    Material index
    organic › animal › tooth › mammal tooth › ivory
    Technique index
    carved,
    formed › carved
    Object type index
    clothing › personal accessory › sagemono › netsuke,
    sculpture › figure › figurine
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
    Accession no.
    EA1956.1710

  • 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. 8 on p. 15, illus. p. 15

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.

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    • currently in research collection

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