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Collections

Kazushige
Minamoto no Mitsunaka Killing a Demonmid-19th century

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Small ivory-toned netsuke carving of a broad-shouldered male figure raising a club overhead while straddling a lion-dog creature with an open mouth

Kazushige, Minamoto no Mitsunaka Killing a Demon, mid-19th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Kazushige
Title
Minamoto no Mitsunaka Killing a Demon
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
mid-19th century
Period
Edo period (1603-1868) or Meiji period (1868-1912)
Medium
Ivory with staining, sumi, inlays
Dimensions
2 1/4 × 1 5/16 × 1 1/8 in. (5.72 × 3.33 × 2.86 cm)
Credit Line
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number
AC1998.249.139
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Bushell, Raymond. The Inr¯o Handbook: Studies of Netsuke, Inr¯o and Lacquer. New York: John Weatherhill, Inc., 1979.
  • 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.
  • Catalog of an Exhibition of Netsuke from the Collection of Raymond Bushell. London: Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd., 1984.
  • Bushell, Raymond. An Exhibition of Netsuke from the Raymond Bushell Collection. Tokyo: Mikimoto World Jewelers, 1979.