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Takeshi
Ghost: Tall Womanlate 19th century

Not on view
Small wood sculpture of a gaunt, skeletal standing figure with long hair, hunched forward, carved from a single piece of warm honey-brown wood tapering to a pointed base

Takeshi, Ghost: Tall Woman, late 19th century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Takeshi
Title
Ghost: Tall Woman
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
late 19th century
Medium
Boxwood
Dimensions
7 1/16 x 1 1/2 x 1 7/16 in. (18.1 x 3.8 x 3.7 cm)
Credit Line
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number
M.91.250.303
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Bushell, Raymond. Netsuke: Japanese Sculpture in Miniature from the Collection of Raymond and Frances Bushell, Part IV. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
  • 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.
  • Lazarnick, George. Netsuke and Inro Artists, and How to Read Their Signatures, vol. 2. Honolulu: Reed Publishers, 1981.
  • Bushell, Raymond. Netsuke Familiar and Unfamiliar: New Principles for Collecting. New York: Weatherhill, 1975.