Project Description
Unusual Wood Netsuke by Hoshunsai Masayuki
A young shaven monk stands with raised fist over a slothful looking hirsute and macrocephalous monster sprawling on the ground. The monster is more head than anything else
Signed. Tokyo. Circa 1850-80
Height: 3.9 cm
Provenance:
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s London, 13th March 1989, lot 58
For the best account of Masayuki, I recommend Paul Moss’s note in his 3 volume Kokusai and stag antler monograph, vol. III, p. 78
