Sacred Art & Iconography
Bowl with Face of Uzume (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 36.120.627)
Kenzan IV, Tokyo ware in the Kenzan style, Japan, ca. 1840, Metropolitan Museum of Art 36.120.627
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A modeled relief and crackle-glaze ceramic bowl titled "Bowl with Face of Uzume," by Kenzan IV, Tokyo ware in the Kenzan style, Japan, ca. 1840, carrying the smiling, dimpled mask face of Uzume, the kagura dance deity of the Kojiki. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 36.120.627, Asian Art department, The Howard Mansfield Collection, Gift of Howard Mansfield, 1936.
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The Met's own title for this bowl names the subject outright, "Bowl with Face of Uzume," a direct identification rather than a bare thematic tag.
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