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Identifier: scienceguide7692amer (find matches)
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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The legless Daruma is a favorite toy among Japa-nese young people, and is often reproduced as asnow man by Japanese boys. The little netsukeabove does not, however, depict such a snow man,but a toy Daruma of heroic size made of papier-mache The odd little figure of Daruma is one veryoften met with among ivory netsuke. Da-ruma ivas a sage who, according to tradition,introduced the Zen sect of Buddhism intoChina, It is said that he remained seated,immovable, absorbed in meditation, for aperiod of nine years, at the end of whichtime his legs had ^rotted away. He isusually represented in the act of stretchinghis arms at the conclusion of his long medi-tation, with his body enveloped in a garmentlike a baa Skulls are very popular subjectsfor netsuke among Japaneseivory carvers. The decidedlymacabre sentiment which at-taches to a medicine box (inro),such a forceful reminder ofmortality, is thoroughly con-sistent with an art that empha-sizes the grotesque and theabnormal
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no.76-92
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  • bookid:scienceguide7692amer
  • bookyear:1901
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York___The_Museum
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:IMLS___LSTA___METRO
  • bookleafnumber:451
  • bookcollection:americanmuseumnaturalhistory
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
  • bookcollection:americana
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  • BHL Consortium
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