A Wood Netsuke

SIGNED GYOKUSO (ITABASHI, TOKYO, 1879-1944), MEIJI-SHOWA PERIOD (EARLY/MID-20TH CENTURY)

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A Wood Netsuke
Signed Gyokuso (Itabashi, Tokyo, 1879-1944), Meiji-Showa Period (Early/Mid-20th Century)
Katabori, okimono type, stained boxwood; a minutely worked figure group of a bodhisattva and Enma-o, Judge of Hell, wrestling on a lotus leaf, the bodhisattva's bowl (in ebony) and Enma-o's sceptre lying on the leaf, the himotoshi formed by the stalk, signed with incised characters on a dark horn rectangular plaque with a pale horn surround Gyokuso
1 5/16 x 1½in. (3.4 x 3.8cm.)

Lot Essay

Gyokuso was a very close student of his almost exact contemporary Morita Soko.¹

1 Sekido Kengo, 'Morita Soko to sono ippa (Morita Soko and the So school)', Rokusho, no. 27 (July 1998), pp. 34-35; Ueda Reikichi, Netsuke no kenkyu [A study of netsuke] (Osaka: Bun'endo, 1943), p. 159.

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