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MEIJI PERIOD (DATED 1908), SIGNED JOSO TO (JOSO; 1855-1910), INSCRIBED SENPAI SAKUHIN MOSU (RESPECTIVELY CARVED AFTER MY MASTER) AND DATED MEIJI TSUCHINOE SARU SHOKA (EARLY SUMMER 1908)
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A WOOD NETSUKE OF A MASK CARVER
MEIJI PERIOD (DATED 1908), SIGNED JOSO TO (JOSO; 1855-1910), INSCRIBED SENPAI SAKUHIN MOSU (RESPECTIVELY CARVED AFTER MY MASTER) AND DATED MEIJI TSUCHINOE SARU SHOKA (EARLY SUMMER 1908)
Seated, his face with a quizzical expression, pausing in his work of carving the mask of the character Hyotoko
1 1/8 in. (3 cm) high
MEIJI PERIOD (DATED 1908), SIGNED JOSO TO (JOSO; 1855-1910), INSCRIBED SENPAI SAKUHIN MOSU (RESPECTIVELY CARVED AFTER MY MASTER) AND DATED MEIJI TSUCHINOE SARU SHOKA (EARLY SUMMER 1908)
Seated, his face with a quizzical expression, pausing in his work of carving the mask of the character Hyotoko
1 1/8 in. (3 cm) high
Literature
Kuo Hong-Sheng and Chang Yuan-Feng, chief eds. et al., Meiji no bi / Splendid Beauty: Illustrious Crafts of the Meiji Period (Taipei: National Taiwan Normal University Research Center for Conservation of Cultural Relics, 2013), p. 440.
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