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Drum body

Drum body, lacquered wood with design of flower-rafts and maple leaves floating in a river. The drum body is decorated in gold hiramaki-e (low sprinkled picture) and e-nashiji ('pear skin ground picture' when metallic flakes of different sizes are sprinkled on a wet lacquer surface to form a design)against a black lacquer ground. On both ends of the drum would have been taut skins partially backed with a lacquered material. Such drums were used in No theatre.

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  • Materials:Lacquered wood
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  • Repository:Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Measurements:Length: 24.9 cm Dum body, Diameter: 10 cm Drum ends