netsuke
- Museum number
- F.782
- Description
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Netsuke. Sleeping rat. Made of ivory. Signed.
- Production date
- Late 18thC
- Dimensions
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Width: 5.70 centimetres
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- Curator's comments
- As one of the twelve animals of the traditional East Asian calendar, mice and rats were popular netsuke subjects, related either to the current or birth year of the owner. It may have served as a talisman for attracting prosperity, since rats are associated with Daikoku, one of the Seven Gods of Good Fortune. (N. Tsuchiya, 2015)
- Location
- On display (G92/dc1)
- Exhibition history
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2014 June-Aug, London, British Museum, Asahi Shimbun display, Dressed to impress: Netsuke and Japanese men’s fashion.
2013 - , BM Japanese Galleries, ‘Japan from Prehistory to the Present’.
2016-17 9 Dec-21 May, Durham University Oriental Museum, Dressed to impress: netsuke and Japanese men’s fashion
2017 30 May-29 Oct, Dorman Museum, Dressed to impress: netsuke and Japanese men’s fashion
2017-2018 4 Nov-22 Apr, Museum of East Asian Art, Dressed to impress: netsuke and Japanese men’s fashion
2018 28 Apr-18 Aug, Worthing Museum, Dressed to impress: netsuke and Japanese men’s fashion
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- F.782