Project Description
Boxwood Netsuke of a Sleeping Shojo by Yoshio
Refreshingly different from the Nagoya canon, the Shojo deep in slumber with his/her head resting on both cupped hands, the long hair sweeping down and around the back, one loose strand providing the himotoshi
Signed. Circa 1820
Length: 4.3 cm
Fuld lists only two netsuke by the artist, both ivory. He somehow missed the two wood ones listed by Lazarnick in the NIA, a cicada emerging from its pupa in the British Museum, and an eagle attacking a monkey in the New York Metropolitan Museum. The signature has been read as Yoshioki, for example by Zacke who had a variant of this model, 8th November 2024, lot 192
MR5141
