By using this site you accept the
terms of our Cookie Policy

You are in: Online Resources > Online Exhibitions > Netsuke: Japanese Art in Miniature > ...

 Previous • Gallery • Next

Gallery Image

An old man with a basket of ashes

This figure is from the tale called Hanasaka Jijii, in which an old man was able to make withered trees come into flower by sprinkling them with the ashes of his dead dog

Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay

 Previous • Gallery • Next