SIGNED KOKEISAI SANSHO (1871-1936), MEIJI - TAISHO PERIOD (EARLY 20TH CENTURY), A carved wood netsuke of a foreign warrior

A carved wood netsuke of a foreign warrior
Signed Kokeisai Sansho (1871-1936) and with kao (cursive monogram), Meiji - Taisho period (early 20th century)
Finely carved as a foreign warrior standing with his right foot and pulling up his another foot on a string, the head adorned with an ornament and his sword in a dragon-fish scabbard worn at the waist, the details inlaid in polychrome lacquer, coral and various stones
3 ¾ in. (9.5 cm.) long

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Born in Osaka, Sansho learned netsuke carving from Dosho, one of the finest Osaka school netsuke artists. He is renowned for very eccentric and amusing figural netsuke often depicting ordinary people.

An almost identical netsuke by the artist illustrated, see George Lazarnick, Netsuke and Inro Artists, and How to Read Their Signatures (Honolulu: Reed Publishers, 1981), p. 913