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Antique Japanese Ittobori Wood Netsuke
Tea Picker
Uji Ningyo
Signature: Gyuka (kakihan). Circa: 19th Century

Recorded in The Netsuke Handbook of Ueda Reikichi #167
H. 1.5 in.(3.5cm), W. 1 in.(2.5cm), D. 0.75 in.(2cm)
Paint loss, o.a. in good condition!

Carved tea wood in the ittobori saishiki style and painted in polychrome. This doll-like tea picker is imbued with charms of a farm girl in the 19th century feudal Japan. The light wood has since darkened into an earth tone patina, tinting much of the once vibrant colors with a sepia brown. The lightly worn kakihan on the base remains legible.


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Tea Picker Netsuke

According to an unusually detailed record in The Netsuke Handbook. Gyuka was born in 1801, entered the Mitsu-ji Monastery early on, and served as a family priest for an imperial family. Then later he resigned from the priesthood to become a painter, and appointed by the shogun to be the successor of the tea master Kamibayashi of Uji. In 1843, The Lord of Ise and magistrate of Kyoto requested Gyuka to create a souvenir of Uji, Gyuka carved from seasoned tea wood a doll netsuke tea picker and presented it to the shogun. Thereafter several daimyo requested the same subject for them; and so forth the descendent of the Gyuka family became known as the makers Uji dolls.

 
  
  
  
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