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Hair Dressing Tool (Kogai)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Long, thin hair dressing tool with tapered point. The tool is mostly gold-colored. The handle is black with gold designs on it. The black portion has rounded rectangular shape with rounded corners. There are gold colored metal pieces on both ends of the black portion. The end of the tool on the left has a small loop shape facing upwards. The background is gray.

Artwork details

Date:
18th century
Medium:
Copper-gold alloy (shakudō), gold, copper
Culture:
Japanese
Dimensions:
599 × 337 px
Museum record:
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