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Okimono, or ornament, in the form of a devil throwing beans at the Setsubun festivaloblique

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Okimono, or ornament, in the form of a devil throwing beans at the Setsubun festival

  • Details

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    Associated place
    Asia › Japan (place of creation)
    Date
    2nd half of the 19th century
    Artist/maker
    Tomomasa (born 1848, active 2nd half of the 19th century) (carver)
    Material and technique
    ivory, with carved decoration, and stained with pigment
    Dimensions
    5 x 2.3 x 2.5 cm (height x width x depth)
    Material index
    organic › animal › tooth › mammal tooth › ivory
    Technique index
    carved,
    formed › carved,
    coloured › stained
    Object type index
    sculpture › okimono,
    sculpture › figure › figurine
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Sir Herbert Ingram, 1956.
    Accession no.
    EA1956.1734

  • 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. 43 on p. 34, illus. p. 34

Glossary (2)

Setsubun, okimono

  • Setsubun

    Setsubun is the winter solstice festival (3 February) where homes are cleansed of imaginary devils. This festival fell on the New Year in the old lunar calendar.

  • okimono

    Japanese for 'ornament' or 'ornament for display'. It is often a free-standing figure.

Location

    • currently in research collection

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