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Collections

Yoshinobu
Kappa, a Water Impcirca Meiji period, 1868-1912

Not on view
Small spherical box with fibrous dark brown outer surface, the lid inset with a metal relief panel depicting a caricatured face in profile with a hooked nose and a gold-toned rod extending from the mouth

Yoshinobu, Kappa, a Water Imp, circa Meiji period, 1868-1912, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Yoshinobu
Title
Kappa, a Water Imp
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
circa Meiji period, 1868-1912
Period
Meiji period (1868-1912)
Medium
Silvered bronze, mixed-metal disk, ironwood bowl; kagamibuta type
Dimensions
1 5/8 x 1/2 in. (4.1 x 1.3 cm)
Credit Line
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number
M.87.263.77
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Lazarnick, George. Netsuke and Inro Artists, and How to Read Their Signatures, vol. 2. Honolulu: Reed Publishers, 1981.
  • Bushell, Raymond. Netsuke: Japanese Sculpture in Miniature from the Collection of Raymond and Frances Bushell, Part III. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.
  • Bushell, Raymond. An Exhibition of Netsuke from the Raymond Bushell Collection. Tokyo: Mikimoto World Jewelers, 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.
  • Bushell, Raymond. Netsuke Familiar and Unfamiliar: New Principles for Collecting. New York: Weatherhill, 1975.