Photographer: Claudius Kamps | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Festive carriage miniature (jewel-carrying lion 球取獅子)
Miniature version of a float with an oversized dance mask called 球取獅子Tamatori shishi; it is a souvenir of the Karatsu-kunchi festival, which takes place every year at the beginning of November and involves 14 floats. The Berlin Ethnological Museum has a total of 8 such small figures. The inscription on the base reads からつ曳山 (Karatsu hikiyama). (Literature: Hatano, Eizô: : Zenkoku kyôdo gangu gaido 4, (畑野栄三 : 全国郷土玩具ガイド4 ), Tokyo, 1993, pp. 146 and 151. Commentary: Siegmar Nahser).
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Object type
Figure
Dimensions
Height: 9,1 cm
Depth: 5,1 cm
Width: 6,7 cm
Depth: 5,1 cm
Width: 6,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
I D 52325
Provenance and sources
when
Showa time, around 1985
where
Japan [Land]
Saga-ken (佐賀県) [Präfektur]
Karatsu (唐津) [Stadt]
who
Noguchi Yoshimitsu 野口喜光 - Makers
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