The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Netsuke in the Shape of a Chestnut Burr

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Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts

Program information

Part of a Sunday at the Met held in conjunction with the exhibition Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art, on view May 26, 2012–January 13, 2013, this lecture features Haruo Shirane, the Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.

Recorded September 30, 2012

The exhibition is made possible by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation.
The catalogue is made possible by the Richard and Geneva Hofheimer Memorial Fund.

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Netsuke in the Shape of a Chestnut Burr

Date:: mid-19th century
Culture:: Japan
Medium:: Porcelain
Dimensions:: H. 1 7/16 in. (3.6 cm); Diam. 1 7/8 in. (4.7 cm)
Classification:: Netsuke
Credit Line:: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
Accession Number:: 91.1.213

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