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Source Description
Daruma is the monk credited with founding Zen Buddhism in Japan. This netsuke (toggle) may be referencing a story, whereby Daruma, frustrated with himself because he kept falling asleep while meditating, cut off his own eyelids and threw them to the ground. The eyelids eventually grew into tea trees.
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Document identity
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25131
label
Daruma, the First Zen Buddhist Patriarch
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object
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Source metadata
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25131
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object
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normalized
title
Daruma, the First Zen Buddhist Patriarch
description
Daruma is the monk credited with founding Zen Buddhism in Japan. This netsuke (toggle) may be referencing a story, whereby Daruma, frustrated with himself because he kept falling asleep while meditating, cut off his own eyelids and threw them to the ground. The eyelids eventually grew into tea trees.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
early 19th century (Edo period (1603–1868))
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CC0
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en
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Ivory & Bone
netsukes
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1
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1
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import
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cm
width
3.6
height
3.3
depth
2.1
dimensionsRaw
H: 1 7/16 × W: 1 5/16 × D: 13/16 in. (3.6 × 3.3 × 2.1 cm)
Source extras
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Japanese
inscriptions
[Signature] Hidemasa
med
sperm whale tooth, ink
creator_ids
1873
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JPK
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275
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1
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0
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photo
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