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Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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uho fell inlove with a holy monk, named Anchin. Uponher advances being met uith stem refusal, thelove of Kijohima turned to passionate hate,and she summoned to her aid the infernaldeities. She pursued Anchin into the temple,tvhere he took refuge under the great bell, whichwas ten feet in height and enormously heavy.Kijohima, now consumed by a fury of baffledpassion, began to undergo a change, her facebecame a witchs mask, her body becamesinuous and dragon-like, and, as she wrappedherself around the great temple bell, flames,emitted from her person, melted it, effectuallyconsuming the unfortunate object of her literallyburning passion The subject of this ivory netsuke is Benkei, ahero of the Twelfth Century, famous inJapanese legend. It is said that he ivas eightfeet in height and had the strength of one hun-dred men. One of his celebrated feats of strengthwas the carrying away of the temple bell ofMiidera. This incident is depicted with greatwealth of detail in the carving shomi below
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THE NKTSlKr: Ol J triN l.il because \\\v pursuit of rcalisui in art leadsto tlu^ trrotcscjuo and the al)n()rnial. It may schmu odd to us tliat the totalabsence of pockets in Jai)anese attire has soenricluHl an art, to say nothing of havingproduced a devoted band of netsukc col-lectors. Among these latter wvvv the lateDr. I. Wyman Drummond and his father,James F. Drummond, and it is from DoctorDrummonds collection, now in the Drum-mond Memorial Hall of the AmericanMuseum, that the illustrations for thisarticle are taken. In making a selectionfrom the wealth of material contained inthis famous collection, which includes morethan 500 carefully selected netsuke, thewriter has been at pains to choose thosewhich have a story to tell rather than thosewhose high artistic worth transcends theirmere interest. But, since the ivory artists ofJapan never produce an unworthy work,choose as we may, these charming littlecarvings always appeal to our sense ofbeauty and fitness. Even the grotesque ugli

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