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Kokeisai Sanshō
Mask with Long Tonguelate 19th-early 20th century

Not on view
Small carved wood netsuke in the form of a demon face with bulging eye, horns, and exaggerated features, smooth honey-brown finish

Kokeisai Sanshō, Mask with Long Tongue, late 19th-early 20th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Kokeisai Sanshō
Japan, 1871-1936
Title
Mask with Long Tongue
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
late 19th-early 20th century
Medium
Wood with inlay
Dimensions
2 1/8 × 1 5/8 × 1 1/4 in. (5.4 × 4.13 × 3.18 cm)
Credit Line
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number
M.91.250.340
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Bushell, Raymond. Netsuke Masks. San Francisco: Kodansha International, Ltd., 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.