Lot 632 Dα

An Edo school wood netsuke of a kappa on a hamaguri, by Kômin. 19th century

An Edo school wood netsuke of a kappa on a hamaguri, by Kômin. 19th century
Climbing over a ridged clam which is closing its valves on the kappa's foot, on his back a tortoise's carapace, the pimply skin of the legs rendered in ukibori. The eyes with metal-rimmed inlays, the fluid in the depression on top of his head inlaid with a gray material, the umbus of shell, the smaller cord hole lined with green-stained bone. Signed Kômin with kaô.
Old paper label with a collector's number pasted to the inside of the himotôshi.
Width 3.4 cm