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
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
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