Katabori netsuke
Netsuke
Japan
Subject/design:
Figure of Rokusonnô
Materials:
Ivory
Date:
Edo period
Size:
Height 6,4 cm
Place of origin:
Japan
Artist:
Unknown
Description:
Minamoto no Tsunemoto 源経基 (894-961), often called Rokusonnô 六孫王, and himself of imperial descent, holding his bow and bending over a huge, demonlike stag which he has killed with a single arrow, thereby saving the emperor.
Inventory number:
CB.NJ.1964.344
Copyright:
Fondation Baur
Photographer:
Marian Gérard