The Katchen Collection of Netsuke – Part II

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Lot 253
  • 253

CRAB BY TOMOKAZU

Estimate
3,000 - 3,500 GBP
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Description

  • CRABBY TOMOKAZU
  • Signed in an irregular reserve Tomokazu
  • Ivory
  • 5.1cm., 2in.
The crab simply modelled resting on a sandy shore looking up, the ivory bearing a good colour.

Literature

For a somehat similar example by Sadayoshi, see George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists and How To Read Their Signatures, p.906.

Catalogue Note

In the Journal of the International Netsuke Society, vol.20, no.2, Nori Watanabe wrote at some length about Kano Tomokazu and his association with Kyoto. It is recorded that Tomokazu visited Kyoto where he became a student of Tomotada (Giyoh Gajin Den Biographical records of refined persons from Gifu, by Noda Kanemon, 1935).