Okimono: God of Literature and Dragon

2020.06.0218

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Basic Information

Artifact Identification Okimono: God of Literature and Dragon   (2020.06.0218)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
  2. :
  3. Art
  4. :
  5. N/A
Artist/Maker Shoichi
Geographic Location
Period Meiji Period
Date 17th century
Culture Japanese
Location Not on Exhibit

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Height) 19 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 13.6 cm
Dimension 3 (Depth) 9.5 cm
Weight 315 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Plant--Wood, Plant--Boxwood
Manufacturing Processes Carved

Research Remarks

Description N/A
Published Description N/A
Bibliography

Spurlock Museum of World Cultures. Sculpted Stories: Selected Works from the Fred Freund Collection. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020.

Bordignon, Laura. The Golden Age of Japanese Okimono: Dr. A.M. Kanter’s Collection = 黄金時代の日本の置物美術: A.m. カンター医学博士コレクション. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 2010.

Guth, Christine. Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City, 1615-1868. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996.

Impey, Oliver, and Malcolm Fairley. The dragon king of the sea: Japanese decorative art of the Meiji period from the John R. Young collection. Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1991.

Irvine, Gregory, Axel Rüger, Hiroko Yokomizo, Tayfun Belgin, John House, and Kris Schiermeier. Japonisme and the Rise of the Modern Art Movement: The Arts of the Meiji Period: The Khalili Collection. London: Thames & Hudson, 2013.

Jahss, Melvin, and Betty Jahss. Inro and other miniature forms of Japanese Lacquer Art. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 1971.

Okada, Barbra Teri. A Sprinkling of Gold: The Lacquer Box Collection of Elaine Ehrenkranz. Newark: The Newark Museum, 1983.

Okada, Barbra Teri., and Mary Gardner Neill. Real and Imaginary Beings: The Netsuke Collection of Joseph and Edith Kurstin. Yale University Art Gallery, 1980.

Vos, F., Jan Dees, Frits Scholten, Oliver Impey, Malcolm Fairley, E.A. Wrangham, and Roger Keyes. Meiji, Japanese art in transition: ceramics, cloisonné, lacquer, prints, illustrated books, drawings and paintings from the Meiji period (1868-1912). Edited by Robert Schaap. ’s-Gravenhage: Haags Gemeentemuseum, 1987.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Fred A. Freund Collection
Reproduction No

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