A WOOD FIGURE OF BODHIDHARMA (DARUMA)

Masayoshi was an Edo sculptor known for netsuke and some display objects (okimono), as here. For a wood lion (20 cm long), see Kuo Hong-Sheng and Chang Yuan-Feng, chief eds. et al., Meiji no bi / Splendid Beauty: Illustrious Crafts of the Meiji Period (Taipei: National Taiwan Normal University Research Center for Conservation of Cultural Relics, 2013), pp. 148-49. See also, Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku Bijutsukan (Tokyo University of the Arts Museum), Odoroki no Meiji kogei / Meiji Kogei: Amazing Japanese Art (Tokyo: Bijutsu Press, 2016), p. 226.