A boxwood netsuke of a stylised sparrow

By Minko, 19th century

By Minko, 19th century
Signed Minko.
4.2cm (1 5/8in) wide.

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Published:
Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.97, no.K522.

Flying with its wings spread, its head turned to the left, holding a spray of millet in its beak, the slightly worn wood of good tone and the eyes inlaid.

The maker is not Tanaka Minko of Tsu, but another of the same name, working in the middle part of the 19th century.