- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ivory netsuke of a figure with a hat, holding a bowl. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 26/4/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Japanese
- Person
- Field collector James Bellhouse Gaskell
- PRM source Hermann Arthur Gunther
- PRM source Albert Everard Gunther
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 17/06/1926
- Date collected
- By 17 June 1926
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1944 Donated: 1980
- Materials and processes
- Material Whale Tooth Animal, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Height: max 62 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1980.34.1852
- Research and responses
A kannushi is a priest at a shinto shrine (also called shinshoku). From 'Encyclopedia of Shinto': http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/entry.php?entryID=1285 [El.B 07/02/2012]
1980.34.1852
Ivory netsuke of a figure with a hat, holding a bowl. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 26/4/2005]
On display
1980.34.1852
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