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Oni Grooming Netsuke

Antique Japanese Netsuke
Oni
Grooming with Mirror

Netsuke Signature: Meigyokusai, Early 19th Century
Recorded in: Netsuke, A Comprehensive Study Based On
The MT Hindson Collection by Neil K. Davey, #1530
h. 1.5 in.(4cm.), w. 1.3 in.(3cm.), d. 1 in.(2.5cm.)
Condition: good, no losses

Meigyokusai Signature
Private Collection

With a self-consciousness that is both touching and preposterous, an oni sits like an obedient child who has been sent to clean up. This display of grooming shows the rough and a powerfully muscled oni bending to his mirror as he dutifully pulls a comb through his hair. The characterization is thorough; the oni has horns, a bristly beard and eyebrows, an all too human and realistically fleshy body that sprouts wild wiry hairs on the chest, over the arms and clawed hands, the legs and the clawed feet, one of which holds up the mirror in its talons. He is wearing bracelets, anklets and a garment made of striped animal hide with a loincloth tied into a soft bow at the back.

While the subject and situation are told on the front of the piece, the back of this netsuke is a marvel of exceptional artistry, with the spine wonderfully defined, the ribs spreading out from it, the masterful texturing of the animal hide garment with the wrapped bow, the thoroughness of execution, to the claws of the foot held underneath the oni, and upward to the crowning achievement, the glorious fall of curled and layered hair that falls suavely to the oni’s back. With this attribute it is understood that, oni or not, this being has an impressively cultivated coiffure. This is a scene which is amusing in its own right, but equally cautionary when applied to human affairs, wherein much attention is often given to refinements which nevertheless do nothing to alter one’s true character.

  
  
  
  
  
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