A Lovely Edo Period Ittabori Netsuke Of A Tea Picker With Child. Signed Gyuka.
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:48589 | Primary Material: Wood/ Woodenware |
| Original/Repro: Antique Original | Age: 1850-1899 |
| Region of Origin: Japanese | Product: Netsuke |
A Wonderful Edo period Carved tea wood Netsuke of a Tea picker carrying a young child on her back.
Signed Gyuka (Kakihan)
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 kakihan on the base remains legible.
Himotashi is to the back between the tea picker an child.
According to an unusually detailed record in The Netsuke Handbook. Gyuka was born in 1801, e...ntered the Mitsu-ji Monastery early on, and served as a family priest for an imperial family.
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.
Recorded in the Netsuke handbook of Ueda Reikichi # 167.
Excellent condition with a superb patina, some natural age wear to the polychrome paint.
Wear commensurate with age and use.
It measures approximately 3.7cm high.
Please see photos for more visual information and condition.
Signed Gyuka (Kakihan)
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 kakihan on the base remains legible.
Himotashi is to the back between the tea picker an child.
According to an unusually detailed record in The Netsuke Handbook. Gyuka was born in 1801, e...ntered the Mitsu-ji Monastery early on, and served as a family priest for an imperial family.
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.
Recorded in the Netsuke handbook of Ueda Reikichi # 167.
Excellent condition with a superb patina, some natural age wear to the polychrome paint.
Wear commensurate with age and use.
It measures approximately 3.7cm high.
Please see photos for more visual information and condition.
