A WOOD FIGURE OF BODHIDHARMA (DARUMA)

EDO PERIOD, SIGNED OKYUDO MASAYOSHI TO (MASAYOSHI; ?-1865)

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A WOOD FIGURE OF BODHIDHARMA (DARUMA)
EDO PERIOD, SIGNED OKYUDO MASAYOSHI TO (MASAYOSHI; ?-1865)
The bodhisattva, dressed in signature cowl and robe, shown standing in bare feet and looking upward and holding a rui scepter in the hands, suggested by the bulge under the robe; polished to a high sheen
11 in. (28 cm) high

Provenance

Ito Kinrei, Yokohama, purchased the sculpture in Meiji 43 (1910), 3rd month (inscription on wood storage box)

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Lot Essay

Masayoshi was an Edo sculptor known for netsuke and some display objects (okimono), as here. For a wood lion (20 cm long), see Kuo Hong-Sheng and Chang Yuan-Feng, chief eds. et al., Meiji no bi / Splendid Beauty: Illustrious Crafts of the Meiji Period (Taipei: National Taiwan Normal University Research Center for Conservation of Cultural Relics, 2013), pp. 148-49. See also, Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku Bijutsukan (Tokyo University of the Arts Museum), Odoroki no Meiji kogei / Meiji Kogei: Amazing Japanese Art (Tokyo: Bijutsu Press, 2016), p. 226.

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