Kintarō was brought up by a mountain hermit called Yamauba. His childhood was spent amongst forest animals. One day, his extraordinary strength was noticed by the warrior Minamoto no Yorimitsu, who was so impressed that he invited Kintarō to become one of his four trusted guardians, known as the Shitennō. This scene is also depicted on the netsuke EA2001.83.
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Artist/maker
Utagawa Yoshitsuya (1822 - 1866) (designer) -
Associated people
Tsujiokaya Bunsuke (active c. 1814 - 1896) (publisher)Sakata no Kintoki (died 1021) (subject) -
Object type
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No. of items
1
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1971.220
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Glossary of terms
netsuke
Further reading
Seaman, Joyce, Manjū: Netsuke from the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2013), illus. p. 194 fig. 55
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