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A wood netsuke of Kappa By Toyoyo (Toyoyasu or Hidari Toyomasa, 1811-1883), Tanba, 19th century image 1
A wood netsuke of Kappa By Toyoyo (Toyoyasu or Hidari Toyomasa, 1811-1883), Tanba, 19th century image 2
A wood netsuke of Kappa By Toyoyo (Toyoyasu or Hidari Toyomasa, 1811-1883), Tanba, 19th century image 3
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A wood netsuke of Kappa
By Toyoyo (Toyoyasu or Hidari Toyomasa, 1811-1883), Tanba, 19th century

8 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A wood netsuke of Kappa

By Toyoyo (Toyoyasu or Hidari Toyomasa, 1811-1883), Tanba, 19th century
Seated on the shell of a large tortoise and looking around to the left with an alert expression, the wood slightly-worn and bearing a good patina, signed in a rounded rectangular reserve Toyoyasu. 4.5cm (1¾in).

Footnotes

木彫根付 亀に河童 銘「豊容」 19世紀

Published: Rosemary Bandini, ibid., p.26, no.40.

Compare an example by Toyomasa illustrated in The Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection of Netsuke, a Legacy at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2003, no.248.

For similar examples by Masakazu and Masasada of Tanba, see Barbra Teri Okada and Mary Gardner Neill, Real and Imaginary Beings, Yale University Art Gallery, 1980, p.101, nos. 100 and 101. Another is illustrated by George Lazarnick, ibid., p.708.

Toyoyo was the son of Naito Toyomasa I. As discussed in the article, Naito Toyomasa, Part II, by Kazutoyo Ichimichi, in The International Netsuke Society Journal, vol.21, no.1, the pronunciation of the name Toyoyasu would be discourteous to Lord Tadayasu of the Sasayama clan; the proper pronunciation would be Toyoyo.

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