Lot Essay
Various accounts have been written about the Jewel Maiden. She is supposed to have been a victim of the fox possession. Her story is told in a Noh play.
18TH AND 19TH CENTURY
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Three ivory netsuke
18th and 19th Century
Of a standing, smiling sumo wrestler; of Tamama no mae, the Jewel Maiden, a woman at her side with a drawn dagger and a nine-tailed fox, signed Tomochika, and a farmer fast asleep on a straw mat, with signature Tomochika
1 7/8in. (4.9cm.) 1 7/8in. (4.8cm.) high and 1½in. (3.9cm.) long respectively (3)
18th and 19th Century
Of a standing, smiling sumo wrestler; of Tamama no mae, the Jewel Maiden, a woman at her side with a drawn dagger and a nine-tailed fox, signed Tomochika, and a farmer fast asleep on a straw mat, with signature Tomochika
1 7/8in. (4.9cm.) 1 7/8in. (4.8cm.) high and 1½in. (3.9cm.) long respectively (3)