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Masatoshi (Nakamura Tokisada)
Badara Sonja20th century

Not on view
Small ivory netsuke of a standing figure with a bald head and full cheeks, body covered in overlapping carved leaf or feather scales, holding a staff

Masatoshi (Nakamura Tokisada), Badara Sonja, 20th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Masatoshi (Nakamura Tokisada)
Title
Badara Sonja
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
20th century
Medium
Ivory with staining, sumi
Dimensions
2 1/16 × 15/16 × 15/16 in. (5.24 × 2.38 × 2.38 cm)
Credit Line
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number
M.91.250.386
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Masatoshi and Raymond Bushell. The Art of Netsuke Carving. San Francisco: Kodansha International Ltd., 1981.
  • 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.
  • Drosse, Christine. "Netsuke Basics from A to Z: M." International Netsuke Society Journal 30, no.2 (2010): 34-41.
Copyright
© artist or artist's estate