Project Description
Wood Netsuke of Kōan Sennin on a Turtle by Nanshin
Kōan, or Roko, is less well known, and more rarely represented, than many other sennin. Here he is shown looking more like a rakan with distinctive drooping eye brows, though his identity is suggested by the mugwort leaf cape. The eyes are double inlays of horn
Signed. Probably Wakayama. Circa 1830
Height: 3.8 cm
This is the only recorded netsuke by the artist
Provenance:
Ex collection Paul Corbin
Sale, Beaussant at the Hôtel Drouot, 10th November1999, lot 177
MR3933
