Project Description
Boxwood Netsuke of Fukurokuju and Karako by Kashun Haraharu
The lucky god lying face down, the boy sitting astride him and apparently tying a ribbon around the god’s exaggerated cranium
Signed. Circa 1830
Height: 3 cm
This is the third netsuke to pass through our hands by this little known artist, recorded by Fuld as having produced some 20 figural netsuke, mostly of dynamic subjects, all but one in wood
MR5144
