Masatoshi (Nakamura Tokisada)
Goat-Headed MonsterAugust 1976

Not on view

Small agate sculpture of a standing mythical beast with open mouth, spiraling horns, and raised paws, carved in banded gray, brown, and cream stone

Artist or Maker: Masatoshi (Nakamura Tokisada)
Title: Goat-Headed Monster
Place Made: Japan
Date Made: August 1976
Period: Shōwa period (1926-1989)
Medium: Rhinoceros horn
Dimensions: 3 1/2 x 1 3/8 x 1 in. (9.0 x 3.5 x 2.6 cm)
Credit Line: Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number: M.91.250.88
Classification: Costumes
Collecting Area: Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography: 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.
Bushell, Raymond. An Exhibition of Netsuke from the Raymond Bushell Collection. Tokyo: Mikimoto World Jewelers, 1979.
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.
Takamado no Miya Hisako. Kogiroku. Heisei 24nendo. Kananmachi (Osakafu): Osaka geijutsu daigaku, 2013.
Atchely, Virginia. "Raymond Bushell Netsuke at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal 5, no.1 (1985): 11-18.
Copyright: © artist or artist's estate

Masatoshi (Nakamura Tokisada)
Goat-Headed MonsterAugust 1976

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Masatoshi (Nakamura Tokisada)
Title: Goat-Headed Monster
Place Made: Japan
Date Made: August 1976
Period: Shōwa period (1926-1989)
Medium: Rhinoceros horn
Dimensions: 3 1/2 x 1 3/8 x 1 in. (9.0 x 3.5 x 2.6 cm)
Credit Line: Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection
Accession Number: M.91.250.88
Classification: Costumes
Collecting Area: Japanese Art
Selected Bibliography: 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.
Bushell, Raymond. An Exhibition of Netsuke from the Raymond Bushell Collection. Tokyo: Mikimoto World Jewelers, 1979.
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.
Takamado no Miya Hisako. Kogiroku. Heisei 24nendo. Kananmachi (Osakafu): Osaka geijutsu daigaku, 2013.
Atchely, Virginia. "Raymond Bushell Netsuke at The Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal 5, no.1 (1985): 11-18.