Project Description
Wood Netsuke of Gama Sennin by Toyokazu
A classic Tamba school subject. The sennin’s eyes are of buffalo horn with drilled and inked pupils, those of his toad are of dark buffalo horn
Signed’ Toyokazu saku
Height: 5.8 cm
For different variants of the subject by Toyomasa, see Journal of the International Netsuke Collectors’ Society, 7/4 (1980), p. 15, fig. 3 as well as the Bosshard netsuke in S.L. Moss, ‘Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on’, 2008, no. 67
MR5250
