Myth, Reality and magical transformation

Aesthetics and Connoisseurship in Japanese Netsuke

2000
203 pages; 90 colour plates
£85 + shipping

The catalogue offering 84 fine and remarkably varied netsuke ranges from several strong and important early animals and figures, some of them dating from the early and mid eighteenth centuries, to superfine and fascinating later works of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Our selection includes nine works by Kokusai and also two large ojime, of almost netsuke size and of quite some rarity and appeal, by Mitsuhiro and by Teiji.