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Collections

Masatoshi (Nakamura Tokisada)
Issun Bōshi: The Legendary Tiny ManFebruary 1955

Not on view
Small carved ivory netsuke of a figure seated inside a rounded tub, leaning over a thin bar across the rim, with dark-painted hair and warm brown shading on the body
Artist or Maker
Masatoshi (Nakamura Tokisada)
Title
Issun Bōshi: The Legendary Tiny Man
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
February 1955
Medium
Ivory with staining, sumi, red pigment
Dimensions
1 1/16 × 1 × 13/16 in. (2.7 × 2.54 × 2.06 cm)
Credit Line
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number
M.91.250.214
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Bushell, Raymond. Netsuke Familiar and Unfamiliar: New Principles for Collecting. New York: Weatherhill, 1975.
  • Bushell, Raymond. An Exhibition of Netsuke from the Raymond Bushell Collection. Tokyo: Mikimoto World Jewelers, 1979.
  • Bushell, Raymond. Netsuke: Japanese Scultpure in Minature from the Collection of Raymond and Frances Bushell, Part II. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1985.
  • 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. Masatoshi: Present Day Master Netsuke Carver in the Tokugawa Tradition. Tokyo: Mikimoto Pearl Co., 1982.
  • Masatoshi and Raymond Bushell. The Art of Netsuke Carving. San Francisco: Kodansha International Ltd., 1981.