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Collections

Naitō Toyomasa
Lurking Tigercirca 1800

Not on view
Small carved wood netsuke of a crouching tiger with inlaid amber eyes, covered in fine incised fur markings, tail curled over its back

Naitō Toyomasa, Lurking Tiger, circa 1800, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Naitō Toyomasa
Japan, 1773-1856
Title
Lurking Tiger
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
circa 1800
Period
Edo period (1603-1868)
Medium
Wood with inlays
Dimensions
1 7/8 x 1 5/16 x 7/8 in. (4.8 x 3.4 x 2.2 cm)
Credit Line
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number
M.87.263.98
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Bushell, Raymond. An Exhibition of Netsuke from the Raymond Bushell Collection. Tokyo: Mikimoto World Jewelers, 1979.
  • Bushell, Raymond. Collector's Netsuke. New York: Walker/Weatherhill, 1971.
  • 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.
  • 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.