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Manjū netsuke depicting Minamoto no Yorimitsu killing the demon Shuten dōji

  • Description

    The monster known as Shuten dōji was a cannibal, capturing young girls and eating them. Minamoto no Yorimitsu and his band of four men eventually tracked the monster down and tricked it with drugged wine. After slaying it, they released the captured girls.

  • Details

    Associated place
    Tōkyō (place of creation)
    Date
    c. 1860
    Artist/maker
    Shinryūsai Chikahiro (active c. 1860)
    Associated people
    Minamoto no Yorimitsu (AD 944 - 1021) (subject)
    Material and technique
    ivory, probably lathe-turned, inlaid with agate, mother-of-pearl, and coral, with carved decoration, and stained with pigment
    Dimensions
    3.1 cm (height)
    7.7 cm (diameter)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Bequeathed by Dr Monica Barnett, 2001.
    Accession no.
    EA2001.76
  • Further reading

    Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 23 April-22 September 2013, Manjū: Netsuke from the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Joyce Seaman, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), no. 78 on pp. 192-194, illus. p. 193

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Manjū, netsuke

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    • currently in research collection

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