Large hand-drum core with grapevines and squirrels, late 16th century
Unknown Japaneseexpand_more
Black lacquer with gold maki-e and pictorial pearskin ground (e-nashiji)expand_more
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more 2015.79.404
Not on Viewexpand_more
These ornately decorated lacquer objects are the cores of handheld drums used in performances of Noh theater and Kabuki. To these cores would have been affixed a drumhead of animal hide.
The lacquer decorations are in the so-called “kōdaiji” style, which was popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Production of kōdaiji lacquer objects, which often feature floral motifs, involved the painstaking application of many coats of black lacquer, gold and/or silver dust and flakes, and transparent lacquer.
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- Large hand-drum core with grapevines and squirrels
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- Accession Number
- 2015.79.404
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 776
- Curator Approved
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