Samurai Exhibition Sömen Mask Magnet
Remember your visit to the incredible Samurai exhibition at Philbrook Museum with this acrylic mask magnet. This pocket sized keepsake packs in all of the detail for a souvenir you will love for years to come.
Samurai mask shaped magnet
Acrylic with magnet backing
Backer card with artifact information attached
Sömen (full-face mask)
Signed: Höei shichi kanoetora reki hachigatsu kichinichi
Bukö ni oite Myochin Munenaga nijuhachisai kore saku
(made by Myochin Ki no Munenaga at the age of twenty-eight on
an auspicious day of the eighth month of Hoei [1710] in Edo)
Edo period, 1710, Iron
© The Ann & Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum. Dallas
Photo: Brad Flowers