TWO JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF SENNIN

TWO JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF SENNIN

EDO PERIOD, 18TH OR 19TH CENTURY

The two sages depicted wearing coats of mugwort leaves, one with a long staff and the other, probably Gama Sennin, holding his pet toad; together with a later netsuke of a rakan, the ascetic lifting his cloak above his head, 10.6cm max. (3)

Provenance: an Irish private collection, Dublin.

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