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Hidemasa
Tongue-Cut Sparrowearly 19th century

Not on view
Small carved netsuke of a plump, smooth-surfaced bird with a detailed human figure clinging to its back, warm chestnut brown with inlaid eye

Hidemasa, Tongue-Cut Sparrow, early 19th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Hidemasa
Title
Tongue-Cut Sparrow
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
early 19th century
Period
Edo period (1603-1868)
Medium
Wood with double inlays
Dimensions
1 1/2 × 1 5/16 × 1 1/16 in. (3.81 × 3.33 × 2.7 cm)
Credit Line
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number
M.91.250.337
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Hurtig, Bernard. Masterpieces of Netsuke Art: One Thousand Favorites of Leading Collectors. New York: Weatherhill, 1973.
  • Bushell, Raymond. Collector's Netsuke. New York: Walker/Weatherhill, 1971.
  • Hurtig, Bernard. "Collecting Legends." Journal of the International Netsuke Collectors Society, 1, no.1 (1973): 4-7.
  • 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.