Lot 496 Dα

Rensai hat dieses Motiv mehrfach geschnitzt. Ein Kommentar von Paul Moss zu einem sehr ähnlichen Stück scheint hier angebracht:
This piece is to me a superb example of an entirely conceptual notion transferred into sculpture, raising netsuke to a status of an art form. Rensai has had the idea of a sparrow (a toy chidori sparrow, of course) flying in clouds among bamboo, and he has given form to this idea by making the bamboo the sparrow's feathers, and the clouds his wings (Paul Moss, Kokusai And His World, Part II, in Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1982, S. 8).