A WOOD NETSUKE of Ono no Komachi in her old age kneeling on the ground holding a stick and with a large hat over her shoulders (minor wear), signed Masakazu, 19th century

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A WOOD NETSUKE of Ono no Komachi in her old age kneeling on the ground holding a stick and with a large hat over her shoulders (minor wear), signed Masakazu, 19th century
3.3cm. high

拍品專文

The celebrated beauty, poetess and Court Lady of the ninth century, whose descent in old age to a wretched, ragged old beggar woman epitomises human frailty and mortality.

For a similar example by Masahiro, see lot 7, Bushell Collection of Netsuke, Part I, sold in Christie's Great Rooms, Tuesday 27 October, 1987