- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Circular ivory disc toggle, separated into two halves: [.1] depicting a half naked woman holding a kitchen knife facing a window. [.1] showing the maker's mark on the reverse side. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 29/3/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Japanese
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1925
- Date collected
- By 1925
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1944 Donated: 1980
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Process Perforated, Process Decorated, Process Incised, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 42 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1980.34.891.1 Accession number: 1980.34.891.2
- Research and responses
Adachigahara is a goblin, an old cannibal woman, who is always depicted with a kitchen knife and sometimes preparing to kill a child. See 'Legend in Japanese Art' by Henri L. Joly, p. 3. [El.B 27/01/2012]
1980.34.891.1
Circular ivory disc toggle, separated into two halves: [.1] depicting a half naked woman holding a kitchen knife facing a window. [.1] showing the maker's mark on the reverse side. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 29/3/2005]
On display
1980.34.891.1
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