Katabori netsuke

根付
日本

Sujet/décor :

Figure of Rokusonnô

Matière:

Ivory

Date:

Edo period

Dimensions:

Height 6,4 cm

Lieu d'origine:

Japan

Artiste:

Unknown

Descriptif:

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.

No d’inventaire:

CB.NJ.1964.344

Copyright:

Fondation Baur

Photographe:

Marian Gérard