Project Description
Wood Netsuke of Kiyohime by Tametaka
Standing over the bell of the Dojoji temple, the lower half of her body already transformed into a dragon’s tail coiled around the bell, presumably with an unseen Anchin melting within
Incised signature on the rim of the bell: tametaka to. Nagoya, circa 1820
Height: 5.2 cm
Fuld lists 8 of these, 2 of them in the Baur collection. Others have been in the collections of Ann Hull Grundy, Ted Wrangham. It is a model which was carried on by the next generation of Nagoya carvers
MR4859
