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Masatoshi (Nakamura Tokisada)
Sea Cow and YoungDecember 1964

Not on view
Small wood netsuke sculpture of two stacked toad-like creatures with inlaid eyes rising from a ribbed gourd-shaped base, warm brown with dark pigment in carved recesses

Masatoshi (Nakamura Tokisada), Sea Cow and Young, December 1964, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Masatoshi (Nakamura Tokisada)
Title
Sea Cow and Young
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
December 1964
Medium
Boxwood with inlays
Dimensions
2 1/4 x 1 3/16 x 1 1/16 in. (5.8 x 3.0 x 2.7 cm)
Credit Line
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number
M.91.250.97
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Bushell, Raymond. Collector's Netsuke. New York: Walker/Weatherhill, 1971.
  • Masatoshi and Raymond Bushell. The Art of Netsuke Carving. San Francisco: Kodansha International Ltd., 1981.
  • Bushell, Raymond. Netsuke: Japanese Sculpture in Miniature from the Collection of Raymond Bushell, Part I. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.
  • 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.
  • Bushell, Raymond. An Exhibition of Netsuke from the Raymond Bushell Collection. Tokyo: Mikimoto World Jewelers, 1979.
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