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MASAKAZU: A FINE NAGOYA SCHOOL WOOD NETSUKE DEPICTING TAIRA NO TSUNEMASA PLAYING THE BIWA
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05月09日 晚上7点 开拍 / 05月07日 下午3点 截止委托
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MASAKAZU: A FINE NAGOYA SCHOOL WOOD NETSUKE DEPICTING TAIRA NO TSUNEMASA PLAYING THE BIWA

By Masakazu, signed Masakazu 正一
Japan, Nagoya, c. 1830-1840, Edo period (1615-1868)

Minutely carved to depict the warrior Taira no Tsunemasa sitting atop a craggy rock, waves cresting to the sides, as the kami (local deity) of Chikubushima appears to him in the form of a white dragon, sinuously coiling around. The dragon’s body is superbly executed in openwork with finely carved scales and flaming scrolls. Himotoshi to the underside and signed within a rectangular reserve MASAKAZU.

LENGTH 4.1 cm

Condition: Excellent condition with minor wear.
Provenance: Previously sold at Glendining’s auction on 31 May 1934. Piasa, Paris, 1 June 1999, lot 472. A French private collection, acquired from the above. Bonhams, Fine Netsuke from a French Private Collection, 4 November 2020, London, lot 20. A private collection, acquired from the above.

The present netsuke depicts the scene from the classic fourteenth-century war epic The Tale of the Heike (Heike monogatari), in which the twelfth-century warrior Taira no Tsunemasa goes on a pilgrimage to the island of Chikubushima in Lake Biwa and plays the biwa for the local deity. Tsunemasa was a nephew of the late Heian period (794–1185) general Taira no Kiyomori and a master of the biwa. Traveling from Kyoto to join the punitive force against the Minamoto army in eastern Japan, he stopped at the Tsukubusuma Shrine on the island and sat down to play the biwa as a form of offering. The kami of Chikubushima was so deeply impressed that he appeared to Tsunemasa in the form of a white dragon.

Literature comparison:
For a closely related wood netsuke depicting Bashiko and the sick dragon, by Masakazu, see Joly, Henri (1975) Catalogue of the H. Seymour Trower Collection of Japanese Art, no. 307, pl. IX.

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