A WOOD FIGURE OF AN AINU FISHERMAN BY KOSEI HIDEYUKI, TOKYO, (BORN 1941)

Estimate

1,000 - 1,200 GBP

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Description

5.4cm., 2 1/8 in.

he stands, bending forward, holding two large captured fish attached to a line over his shoulder, the pale boxwood is lightly stained, signed Kosei with inlaid gold seal Hideyuki

Literature

For a similar example, see Miriam Kinsey, Living Masters of Netsuke, p. 87, no. 48