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A large drum body (otsuzumi) | Edo period, 17th century

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A large drum body (otsuzumi)

Edo period, 17th century


the wood core of the drum decorated in Kodaiji style, in gold hiramaki-e, takamaki-e and nashiji, with butterflies hovering among foliage beside an ox-cart, alluding to scenes from the Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari), the top with an open fan, tomoe mon and a further ox cart, all on a black ground

28 cm., 11⅛ in. high

Nihon no bijutsu 2, Maki-e tsuzumi, volume no. 477 , 2006, no. 102.

For a similar example in the collection of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundation, see Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere ed., Kazari: Decoration and Display in Japan, Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries, (London, 2002, pg. 137, no. 35.