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Seiyōdō Tomiharu
Haiku: Returning, I meet a sake cart on the road. My mouth waters.1793

Not on view
Oval cross-section of a natural material, amber-brown with dark ridged edges, inscribed with Chinese characters in cream-colored fill and a small central hole
Oval inkstone of polished amber-brown stone with rough, unworked edges, featuring a small central ink well and multiple columns of incised Chinese calligraphy across the surface.

Seiyōdō Tomiharu, Haiku: Returning, I meet a sake cart on the road. My mouth waters., 1793, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Seiyōdō Tomiharu
Title
Haiku: Returning, I meet a sake cart on the road. My mouth waters.
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
1793
Period
Edo period (1603-1868)
Medium
Ivory with staining
Dimensions
3 3/16 × 2 1/4 × 5/16 in. (8.1 × 5.72 × 0.79 cm)
Credit Line
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number
AC1998.249.201
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Bushell, Raymond. Collector's Netsuke. New York: Walker/Weatherhill, 1971.
  • Lazarnick, George. Netsuke and Inro Artists, and How to Read Their Signatures, vol. 2. Honolulu: Reed Publishers, 1981.
  • 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.
  • Drosse, Christine. "Netsuke Basics from A to Z: I." International Netsuke Society Journal 29, no.3 (2009): 42-47.