SEVEN JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF ONI

EDO AND MEIJI PERIOD, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY

Two depicting the demons on Setsubun as beans are being thrown at them; another carved as a large oni ringing a monk's bell; another pounding mochi while the fifth is shown fighting a small boy on a lotus leaf; the sixth an oni attendant weeping on the severed arm of his master the Rashomon Demon, signed Masanao, and the last, a beauty cleaning the ear of a demon dressed as a monk, some with signatures including Norishige and Masatsugu, 5.8cm max. (7)

Provenance: from the collection of a lady of title, and thence by descent.