Height: 9,1 cm
Gama Sennin is carved standing, looking up and crying out, while holding his cape with both hands. On his back, toads are climbing his cape up to his left shoulder.
This example is in the style of Yoshimura Shūzan of Osaka, a Kanō school painter of the mid-eighteenth century, who, according to the Sõken Kishō, Inaba's 1781 publication, was considered one of the finest carvers of his day. He is the innovator in netsuke of legendary and mythological figures done in this technique: his carvings, which he created using hinoki (cypress) wood, were coated in a kind of gesso and painted in polychromy.
Price: 15,000 €
Inventory Nr: 1955
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