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Mokugyo

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Mokugyo

Date:: 19th century
Geography:: Japan
Medium:: wood
Dimensions:: W. 11 in.; H. 10 in.
Classification:: Idiophone-Struck
Credit Line:: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
Accession Number:: 89.4.2838

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 681

References

Winternitz Emanuel. Pleasing Eye and Ear Alike. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1971, Vol. XXX, No. 2, pg. 70-71, ill.

Catalogue of the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments: Historical Groups, Gallery 39. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1905, pg. 70.
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What
Musical instruments (5,240)

Idiophones (1,505)

Membranophones (652)

Drums (631)

Slit drums (106)

Mokugyo (6)
Where
Asia (68,072)

Japan (21,807)
In the Museum
Musical Instruments (5,221)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Japan, 1800–1900 A.D.

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