Lot Essay
This is an imaginative model portraying an Ashinaga with particularly long and slender legs and short arms.
Details
ASHINAGA
Sandlewood sashi netsuke, unsigned
Early 19th Century
5 9/16 in. (14.2 cm.) long
Sandlewood sashi netsuke, unsigned
Early 19th Century
5 9/16 in. (14.2 cm.) long
Provenance
Tamotsu Kuroda
Literature
Raymond Bushell, Netsuke Familiar and Unfamiliar, Weatherhill, Tokyo, 1975, fig. 775