Inrō, netsuke, and ojime (Ryusa-manju: vegetable basket)
Accession Nr.: | 1760.1-3 |
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Type: | object for daily use; lacquers; costumes |
Artist/Maker: | |
Date of production: |
turn of the 18th and 19th centuries
Edo (Tokugawa) period |
Place of production: | |
Acquisition: | collection of Ferenc Hopp |
Signed: | Kōma (古満) |
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Materials/Techniques: | wood, lacquer, maki-e, textile, stag antler, walrus tusk |
Dimensions: | inrō: height 4.4 cm width 7.7 cm depth 1.8 cm netsuke: diameter 4.4 cm |
Three-case inrō decorated with kai-awase shell game motif, referring to the butterfly dance from chapter 24 of the Genji Monogatari, the netsuke is forming a vegetable basket and the ojime has the shape of an ovoid basket.