A small wood netsuke of a cockerel

By Tadakuni, Nagoya, 19th century

By Tadakuni, Nagoya, 19th century
Signed with ukibori characters in a rectangular reserve Tadakuni.
4.5cm (1¾in) wide.

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Published:
Katchen, N7, vol.2, p.13, no.K30.

Resting with its head turned back, its legs folded unobtrusively beneath and its long tail sweeping up, part of which forms the himotoshi, the pupils inlaid.

A very similar example by Tadakuni, from the W. L. Behrens collection, no.5432, is illustrated in Meinertzhagen, MCI, p.837.