TEKKAI SENNIN

Details
TEKKAI SENNIN
Lacquer manju netsuke, unsigned
19th Century
1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.), short interior crack
Literature
Raymond Bushell, The Inro Handbook, Weatherhill, Tokyo, 1979, fig. 71, pp. 104 and 105

Lot Essay

Tekkai Sennin is one of the eight Taoist Immortals depicted in the form of a lame beggar exhaling his spiritual essence. The figure is rendered in raised black lacquer on
a brown lacquer grounf, the reverse similarly rendered.