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Kogai with Long-legged Creature ("Ashinaga")
Long-legged creatures called "ashinaga" supposedly lived on an island near Japan. They often socialized with long-armed creatures called "tenaga." The tenaga would sit on the ashinaga's shoulders to reach fruit on trees for them both to eat. This is part of a mounted set.
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Provenance
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Japan, Tokyo (Edo) (Place of Origin)
Measurements
L: 5 in. (12.7 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by 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.
51.1204.3
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