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Collections

Shūzan
Pipe-Smoke Dragonmid-19th century

Not on view
Small netsuke or decorative carving in honey-brown ivory or hardwood, depicting a scaled dragon coiled around a cylindrical rod with open mouth and clawed feet

Shūzan, Pipe-Smoke Dragon, mid-19th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Shūzan
Japan, active mid-19th century
Title
Pipe-Smoke Dragon
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
mid-19th century
Period
Edo period (1603-1868) or Meiji period (1868-1912)
Medium
Wood with inlays
Dimensions
2 9/16 x 1 3/16 x 11/16 in. (6.6 x 3.0 x 1.7 cm)
Credit Line
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number
AC1998.249.163
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Bushell, Raymond. Netsuke Familiar and Unfamiliar: New Principles for Collecting. New York: Weatherhill, 1975.
  • Goodall, Hollis, Virginia G. Atchley, Neil K. Davey, Christine Drosse, Sebastian Izzard, Odile Madden, and Robert T. Singer. The Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection of Netsuke: A Legacy at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Chicago: Art Media Resources, Inc.; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2003.
  • Lazarnick, George. Netsuke and Inro Artists, and How to Read Their Signatures, vol. 2. Honolulu: Reed Publishers, 1981.

  • Blondet, José Luis. Six Scripts for Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE-2020 CE). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2020.