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AN EBONY OR KUROGAKI WOOD NETSUKE A WOOD NETSUKE OF A BADGER
OF A HIMALAYAN BEAR By Toyokazu, Tanba Province, 19th century
By Hosai, Edo/Tokyo, late 19th century Signed in an oval reserve Toyokazu.
Signed on a green-stained tablet Hosai. 5.1cm (2in) high.
3.8cm (1½in) high.
£3,000 - 5,000
£2,500 - 3,000 JPY440,000 - 730,000
JPY360,000 - 440,000 US$4,100 - 6,900
US$3,400 - 4,100
木彫根付 狸 銘「豊一」 19世紀
黒檀/黒柿彫根付 月輪熊 銘「法斎」 19世紀後期
Provenance:
Published: Joseph U. Seo, New York, 1963.
Katchen, N7, vol.1, p.243, no.K359.
Published:
Seated, leaning forward and licking its raised right forepaw, forming a Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.171, no.K350.
compact composition, the pads beneath its feet with ukibori pimples
and the distinctive crescent on its chest inlaid with bone, one leg Standing and staring ahead in a human attitude, its body wrapped in a
forming the himotoshi. lotus leaf and with a lotus leaf hat, the slightly worn wood with a typical
stain and the eyes inlaid with pale translucent horn.
The Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus), also known as the moon
bear or white-chested bear, is native to much of Asia, including the For very similar examples of the subject by Toyokazu, see Davey, MTH,
Himalayas, China, Taiwan and the Honshu and Shikoku islands of p.243, no.756, and Meinertzhagen, MCI, p.946. For an example by
Japan. Toyomasa, see Coullery, Baur, no.C1108.

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