**SOLD** Unusually Long Pale Wood Seal Netsuke of Oni Lamenting the Rashomon Demon by Rinkoku

Unusually Long Pale Wood Seal Netsuke of Oni Lamenting the Rashomon Demon by Rinkoku

The distraught long haired demon sprawling on top of the large arm of the demon, the severed end cut with a seal. The stain with a reddish tint to it

Signed in cursive script. 19th century

11 cm  

Provenance:

Behrens collection (Joly catalogue, no. 635), not illustrated

Anonymous sale, 16th May 1955? (ticket still attached)

Norton, 19th February 1957

Dorothy Ann Stevens collection, no. 361

Literautre:

‘Meinertzhagen Card Index’, listed with the signature given in standard kanji, p. 648

No other netsuke recorded by the artist

MR5247