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AN UMIMATSU (SEA-PINE) NETSUKE A BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF A SNAIL AN UMIMATSU (SEA-PINE) NETSUKE
OF A CICADA ON A BRANCH ON A SHIITAKE MUSHROOM OF A CICADA ON A BRANCH
By Arakawa Kisai, Izumo, late 19th century By Soho, 19th century Iwami Province, late 18th/early 19th century
A large gnarled and partly polished branch The large snail slithering over a mushroom, its The insect carved separately, resting on a
on which a large cicada is carved in relief, its optic feelers extending over the cap, forming slightly curved smooth branch, with two
wings drawn in, the material of variegated a compact composition in stained wood, the leaves attached to a stalk, partly utilising a
colour; signed San’in nanajuissai o Kisai stalk of the mushroom forming the himotoshi; pale section of the otherwise almost black
(Kisai, an old man of 71 from the San’in[do] signed Soho sanjin Minko no zu (Hermit material; unsigned.
region). 6.7cm (2 5/8in). Soho, after a design by Minko). 5.4cm (2 1/8in).
5.7cm (2¼in).
£1,500 - 2,000
JPY190,000 - 260,000 £700 - 900
US$1,800 - 2,400 £1,500 - 2,000 JPY90,000 - 120,000
JPY190,000 - 260,000 US$850 - 1,100
US$1,800 - 2,400
海松彫根付 枝に止まる蝉 銘 「山陰七十
一翁亀斎」 19世紀後期 海松彫根付 枝に止まる蝉 無銘
黄楊彫根付 椎茸に蝸牛 銘 「僧浦山人眠 18世紀後期/19世紀前期
Provenance: 虎図」 19世紀
Anne Hull Grundy Collection. Published:
George Lazarnick Collection. Published: Earle, Huthart, p.345, no.319.
Earle, Huthart, p.347, no.323.
Published:
Hull Grundy, NCIS, fig.92. The name Soho appears to be unrecorded,
Lazarnick, NIA, p.623. and this work seems to have been copied
Meinertzhagen, MCI, p.342. from an example by Konan Minko, himself
Rokusho 20, p.76, no.112. believed to be a follower of Tanaka Minko
Earle, Huthart, p.343, no.317. of Tsu.

Kisai exhibited sculpture and panels under
the name Arakawa Shigenosuke of Shimane
Prefecture at the Chicago World’s Columbian
Exhibition (1893), and at the Paris Exposition
Universelle (1900).

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