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Ichiyūsai Naomitsu
Kane-jo Halting a Runaway Horselate 18th-early 19th century

Not on view
Small circular ivory netsuke with carved relief of a robed figure holding a basket pressed against a large, shaggy ox, with tobacco-brown staining in recessed areas
Artist or Maker
Ichiyūsai Naomitsu
Title
Kane-jo Halting a Runaway Horse
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
late 18th-early 19th century
Period
Edo period (1603 - 1868)
Medium
Ivory with staining, sumi; manjū type
Dimensions
2 1/8 x 1 in. (5.4 x 2.5 cm)
Credit Line
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number
AC1998.249.91
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Bushell, Raymond. Collector's Netsuke. New York: Walker/Weatherhill, 1971.
  • Meinertzhagen, Frederick. The Meinertzhagen Card Index on Netsuke in the Archives of the British Museum, Part B. George Lazarnick, ed. New York: Alan R. Liss, Inc., 1986.
  • Bushell, Raymond. An Exhibition of Netsuke from the Raymond Bushell Collection. Tokyo: Mikimoto World Jewelers, 1979.
  • Joly, Henri L., ed. Catalogue of the H. Seymour Trower Collection of Japanese Art. Reprint. Hollywood, Florida: Kurstin-Schneider, 1975.
  • Bushell, Raymond. Netsuke: Japanese Sculpture in Miniature from the Collection of Raymond Bushell, Part I. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.
  • 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.