Lot Essay
As are all Japanese ghosts, the female ghost depicted in this netsuke is legless. Distraut at the injustice of her death, she stands at her gravesite clutching her death tablet.
Details
FEMALE GHOST
Wood, signed Sosui
(1911-1972)
3 in. (7.5 cm.) high, in fitted wood tomobako inscribed yurei kibori netsuke "carved wood netsuke of a ghost", signed on the interior of the lid Sosui saku with seal
Wood, signed Sosui
(1911-1972)
3 in. (7.5 cm.) high, in fitted wood tomobako inscribed yurei kibori netsuke "carved wood netsuke of a ghost", signed on the interior of the lid Sosui saku with seal
Literature
Raymond Bushell, Collectors' Netsuke, Weatherhill, New York, 1971, no. 322; Raymond Bushell, Netsuke, An Exhibition of Netsuke from the Raymond Bushell Collection, Mikimoto, Tokyo, 1979, fig. 455