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Collections

Kokeisai Sanshō
Inebriated Laborerlate 19th-early 20th century

Not on view
Small wood netsuke sculpture of a squatting man with head tilted back, holding a sake cup and gourd flask, carved in polished honey-brown boxwood with inlaid eyes
Artist or Maker
Kokeisai Sanshō
Title
Inebriated Laborer
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
late 19th-early 20th century
Medium
Boxwood with inlays
Dimensions
1 15/16 x 1 1/4 x 1 in. (4.9 x 3.1 x 2.5 cm)
Credit Line
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number
M.91.250.164
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Davey, Neil K. Netsuke: A Comprehensive Study Based on the M.T. Hindson Collection. Revised edition. London: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd., 1982
  • 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. 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. An Exhibition of Netsuke from the Raymond Bushell Collection. Tokyo: Mikimoto World Jewelers, 1979.