SIGNED HOJITSU, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

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A WOOD NETSUKE
SIGNED HOJITSU, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
Daruma standing with one shoe, his robe billowing about him
4.5cm. high

Provenance

Guest Collection
M.T Hindson collection

Literature

N. K. Davey,Netsuke, (London, 1982) p.149 no. 442

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Lot Essay

The subject is an allusion to the legend that three years after the death of Daruma he was seen travelling back towards India with one shoe. When his sepulcre was opened the other shoe was found in the empty tomb

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