A WOOD NETSUKE

SIGNED MINKO (TSU, ISE PROVINCE, 1735-1816), EDO PERIOD (18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY)

细节

A WOOD NETSUKE
Signed Minko (Tsu, Ise Province, 1735-1816), Edo Period (18th/Early 19th Century)
Of a reclining young wild boar, facing forward with its legs symmetrically arranged, katabori, wood with staining, signed in a rectangular reserve below the left hind leg Minko with a kao
1in. (4.5cm.) long

拍品专文

Tanaka Minko was born in Iga province (Mie prefecture), later moving into the service of the Todo family in Tsu. The Jofukuji temple in Ueno, Iga, contains a number of animal carvings dating from early in his career1.

1 Inaba Tsuryu Shin'emon, Soken Kisho [Strange and Wonderful Sword-Fittings] (Osaka, 1781) vol. 7, p. 9; Hidekazu Okuno, 'Tanaka Minko, Retained Carver for the Todo Clan of Tsu' (Nori Watanabe trans.), International Netsuke Society Journal, 16/3 (1996), pp. 16-22