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Kokeisai Sanshō
Comic Mask with Bulbous Noselate 19th-early 20th century

Not on view
Small polished ivory or bone netsuke carved as an ovoid face with exaggerated bulging eyes, a large nose, and deeply ridged wrinkles, in warm honey-amber tones

Kokeisai Sanshō, Comic Mask with Bulbous Nose, 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
Title
Comic Mask with Bulbous Nose
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
late 19th-early 20th century
Medium
Wood with sumi
Dimensions
2 3/16 × 1 5/8 × 1 7/16 in. (5.56 × 4.13 × 3.65 cm)
Credit Line
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number
M.91.250.344
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.