Live Auction 13127Art of Japan
A Wood Netsuke of Nikki Danjo Turning into a Rat
Lot 13 The Tony & Johanna Oey Collection of Netsuke

A Wood Netsuke of Nikki Danjo Turning into a Rat

Signed Sosui (Ouchi Sosui, 1907-1972), Showa period (20th century)

Closed8 December 2016

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GBP 5,625

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A Wood Netsuke of Nikki Danjo Turning into a Rat
Signed Sosui (Ouchi Sosui, 1907-1972), Showa period (20th century)
Modelled as Nikki Danjo, the character from the kabuki story ‘The Disputed Succession’ (Meiboku Sendai hagi), with a small scroll held in his mouth, the back of his formal costume dissolving into a wisp of smoke from which emerges an apparition of a large rat
6.2 cm. high

Specialist note

For another similar model by Sosui, see Bernard Hurtig, Masterpieces of Netsuke Art: One Thousand Favorites of Leading Collectors, (Tokyo and New York, 1973), p. 171, no. 697