Project Description
Wood Netsuke of Okame Throwing Beans
She clutches two beans in one hand and a box in the other. The beans are intended to drive out demons, as practised as the oni yarai ritual at Setsubun
Scratchy signature Hirotsugu probably added later. Circa 1800-1820
Height: 5.5 cm
The signature may have been added later in imitation of an ivory variant of the subject illustrated in Lazarnick’s Netsuke and Inro Artists …, p. 469. I doubt that they are by the same hands
Item Location: USA
