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Kozuka with a Performing Monkey
(Japanese Military Armor)
A man in formal dress sits on the right side of the kozuka holding a stick and a monkey on a rope. The monkey holds "shide" paper streamers attached to a stick. The pine boughs to the right of the man suggest that this scene occurs during the New Year's celebrations. Trained monkey performances were a common form of amusement during the Edo period. This is only the decorative front plate of the kozuka.
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Provenance
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William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Japan (Place of Origin)
Measurements
L: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
51.895