Japanese netsuke, Itinerant bookseller

An image of Netsuke: katabori: Itinerant bookseller. Unknown maker, Japan. An itinerant merchant carrying a heavy pack of books on his back, wearing knee length robes and a wide, rounded hat; a gong is suspended from his waist and he holds a mallet in his right hand. His left hand is raised and the object he was holding is missing. The characters inscribed on the back of the pack read `The 66 provinces of Japan' (the last character is not the correct version of province). Himotoshi formed by the stand on the base of the pack. Ivory, carved and stained, height, whole, 7.6 cm, width, whole, 2.9 cm, circa 1800-1868. Edo Period (1615-1868).

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Netsuke: katabori: Itinerant bookseller. Unknown maker, Japan. An itinerant merchant carrying a heavy pack of books on his back, wearing knee length robes and a wide, rounded hat; a gong is suspended from his waist and he holds a mallet in his right hand. His left hand is raised and the object he was holding is missing. The characters inscribed on the back of the pack read `The 66 provinces of Japan' (the last character is not the correct version of province). Himotoshi formed by the stand on the base of the pack. Ivory, carved and stained, height, whole, 7.6 cm, width, whole, 2.9 cm, circa 1800-1868. Edo Period (1615-1868).

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Accession Number: O.78-1991
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Image Library; Fitzwilliam Museum
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 475 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 302.18kB
Exposure time: 1/30
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2000:01:02 02:07:04

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19th Century book-seller books bookseller carrying carved Edo Period Fitz_AA gongs hats himotoshi itinerant ivory Japanese katabori male merchandise merchants netsuke pile pile of books robes seller selling stained vendor

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