Japanese netsuke of Kikujido inside Chyrsanthemum leaves

An image of Netsuke. Kaigyoku Sai. Masatsugu. A barrel-shaped container made of chrysanthemum flowers and hinged at the bottom opening to reveal Kikujidō, writing the magic characters of longevity on chrysanthemum leaves and seated amongst chrysanthemums. Ivory, carved and stained, height, closed, 3 cm. Japanese.

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

Netsuke. Kaigyoku Sai. Masatsugu. A barrel-shaped container made of chrysanthemum flowers and hinged at the bottom opening to reveal Kikujidō, writing the magic characters of longevity on chrysanthemum leaves and seated amongst chrysanthemums. Ivory, carved and stained, height, closed, 3 cm. Japanese.

Image data

Accession Number: O.10-1917
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 50
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 813 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 612.42kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2009:11:16 14:23:47

Key words

carved chrysanthemum Fitz_AA floral flowers ivory Japanese Kaigyoku Sai katabori Masatsugu netsuke

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024)
            "Japanese netsuke of Kikujido inside Chyrsanthemum leaves"
            Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-2549418373 Accessed: 2024-11-25 13:35:38

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-2549418373
            |title=Japanese netsuke of Kikujido inside Chyrsanthemum leaves
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-25 13:35:38|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/images/media-211344

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/O_10_1917_1_200911_adn21_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Netsuke"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Japanese netsuke of Kikujido inside Chyrsanthemum leaves</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>