Netsuke: Rakan with long eyebrows

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Netsuke: Rakan with long eyebrows

Artist Shûraku

Place of OriginJapan

Datemid 19th century

Mediumbowl: wood plate: shibuichi and gold inlay

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LineGift of Richard R. Silverman

Object number

2013.97

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DescriptionA rakan, named Sonja, with long eyebrows.

Published ReferencesOkada, Barbra Teri, Real and Imaginary Beings: the Netsuke of Joseph and Edith Kuristan, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980, repr. no. 93.

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