Project Description
Wood Netsuke of a Rat Grooming Itself by Ichimin
Seated upright, gripping its tail with two paws and twisting in order to scratch the fur beneath its left foreleg.The eye pupils are inlays of dark horn
Signed; ichimin to. Nagoya, circa 1850
Height: 3.4 cm
Information:
An almost identical netsuke is illustrated in Moss, ‘Japanese Netsuke: Serious Art’, no. 36.
MR4915
