Includes exhibition guide, introductory leaflet, booklet containing five stories from Netsuke related to display in the exhibition and an exhibition trail for children, private view invitation
Popular Art in Isolation, Japan 1638-1858, 12 September – 13 April 1998
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Washing clothes in town. Banana palms dusty leaves
3 girls in costume in dance pose
Story to accompany embroidery, 'Returning Home from Farm' by Clugnia Moses
Slide of Golok children with turquoise and coral in the base cloths attached to their hair
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