Lot 715 D‡α

An amusing boxwood netsuke of a yawning Daruma, by Shôzan. 19th century

Seated and stretching after his nine-year-long meditation, a fly whisk in front of him, at the back grasses growing through a hole of his robe, the dew drops inlaid in silver. The eye pupils of black horn, the cord holes lined with ivory. Signed Shôzan with kaô.
Height 4.2 cm