A RARE AND EARLY WOOD NETSUKE OF KOSHOHEI
A RARE AND EARLY WOOD NETSUKE OF KOSHOHEI
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Japan, 18th century, Edo period (1615-1868)
Beautifully worn and dynamically carved as the immortal Koshohei amusingly startled by a boulder before him in mid-transformation into a goat, causing him to raise his staff, as if to strike the animal on its head. Koshohei dressed in a large robe tied loosely at the waist, his face carved with a petrified expression as he jumps in horror. Large himotoshi to the back, the cord channel running through the sleeve and signed within a rounded rectangular reserve.
HEIGHT 7 cm
Condition: Good condition with old wear and traces of use. One smoothened old chip to the left foot.
Koshohei is a sennin based on the Chinese Daoist immortal Wong Tai Sin, known also as the Red Pine Immortal, who had the power to turn rocks into goats. He is the divine form of Huang Chuping (c. 328-386), a Daoist hermit from Jinhua during the Eastern Jin dynasty.
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A RARE AND EARLY WOOD NETSUKE OF KOSHOHEI
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Japan, 18th century, Edo period (1615-1868)
Beautifully worn and dynamically carved as the immortal Koshohei amusingly startled by a boulder before him in mid-transformation into a goat, causing him to raise his staff, as if to strike the animal on its head. Koshohei dressed in a large robe tied loosely at the waist, his face carved with a petrified expression as he jumps in horror. Large himotoshi to the back, the cord channel running through the sleeve and signed within a rounded rectangular reserve.
HEIGHT 7 cm
Condition: Good condition with old wear and traces of use. One smoothened old chip to the left foot.
Koshohei is a sennin based on the Chinese Daoist immortal Wong Tai Sin, known also as the Red Pine Immortal, who had the power to turn rocks into goats. He is the divine form of Huang Chuping (c. 328-386), a Daoist hermit from Jinhua during the Eastern Jin dynasty.
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