NETSUKE EN BUIS

JAPON, SIGNE SHUGETSU, XIXEME SIECLE

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NETSUKE EN BUIS
JAPON, SIGNE SHUGETSU, XIXEME SIECLE
Représentant une lutte entre un nio, gardien de temple repoussant les démons, et un oni, vêtu tous deux des mawashi, les visages finement ciselés, le regard menaçant ou traduisant l'effort
Hauteur: 7,2 cm.(2¾ in.)

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A WOOD NETSUKE OF A WRESTLING ONI AND NIO
JAPAN, SIGNED SHUGETSU, 19TH CENTURY

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The pose represented here refers to a classic bout between Kawazu and Matano that took place in 1176. Matano was about to lift Kawazu by his loincloth and throw him but Kawazu outwitted him with a combined neck grip and leg trip, a move known as kawazugake. An okimono signed Masatoshi (Tokyo) and of a similar couple of wrestlers is kept in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (11.23729)

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