Japanese netsuke, a Karako sleeping, reclining on his right arm

An image of Netsuke. A Karako sleeping, reclining on his right arm. Unknown maker, Japan. Bronze alloy, 1870-1930.

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

Netsuke. A Karako sleeping, reclining on his right arm. Unknown maker, Japan. Bronze alloy, 1870-1930.

Image data

Accession Number: O.100-2008
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Image Library; Fitzwilliam Museum
Image height: 669 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 64.94kB
Exposure time: 1/30
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2000:01:02 02:28:38

Key words

19th Century 20th Century asleep bronze bun carved fallen asleep Fitz_AA hair Japanese karako lying lying down male netsuke playing reclining recumbent sleeping slumber young

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025)
            "Japanese netsuke, a Karako sleeping, reclining on his right arm"
            Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-3680566585 Accessed: 2025-12-10 14:18:53

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-3680566585
            |title=Japanese netsuke, a Karako sleeping, reclining on his right arm
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-12-10 14:18:53|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/images/media-214635

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/large_O_100_2008_1_dc2.jpg"
        alt="netsuke"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Japanese netsuke, a Karako sleeping, reclining on his right arm</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>