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Collections

Masakazu
Raccoon Dog Disguised as Priestearly 19th century

Not on view
Small ivory netsuke of a hunched, wide-mouthed grotesque figure holding a lute-like instrument, with dense engraved surface texture and dark inlaid details
Artist or Maker
Masakazu
Japan, late 18th-early 19th century
Title
Raccoon Dog Disguised as Priest
Place Made
Japan
Date Made
early 19th century
Period
Edo period (1603 - 1868)
Medium
Ivory with staining, sumi, inlays
Dimensions
2 1/8 × 1 1/16 × 5/8 in. (5.4 × 2.7 × 1.59 cm)
Credit Line
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number
M.91.250.52
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Bushell, Raymond. Collector's Netsuke. New York: Walker/Weatherhill, 1971.
  • Catalog of an Exhibition of Netsuke from the Collection of Raymond Bushell. London: Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd., 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. An Exhibition of Netsuke from the Raymond Bushell Collection. Tokyo: Mikimoto World Jewelers, 1979.