SEVEN JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF ONI EDO AND MEIJI PERIOD

SEVEN JAPANESE WOOD NETSUKE OF ONI

EDO AND MEIJI PERIOD, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY

Two depicting the demons on Setsubun as beans are being thrown at them; another carved as a large oni ringing a monk's bell; another pounding mochi while the fifth is shown fighting a small boy on a lotus leaf; the sixth an oni attendant weeping on the severed arm of his master the Rashomon Demon, signed Masanao, and the last, a beauty cleaning the ear of a demon dressed as a monk, some with signatures including Norishige and Masatsugu, 5.8cm max. (7)

Provenance: from the collection of a lady of title, and thence by descent.