Edo period (ca.1615-1700), 17th Century
Unsigned
high,6.8cm
Provenance: Vienna private collection
Very good photogenic composition.
Netsuke were made in a variety of forms, the most widely appreciated being the katabori (shape carving), a three-dimensional carving. This one is in the form of a sennin (Daoist immortal).
Old man from China.this carved is in the form of a Daoist sennin, dressed in a robe and cape of mugwort leaves, There are two cord holes in his back. Gama sennin standing, smiling as he holds a gourd flask over his shoulder. carved wearing long open robes, holding a gourd spray with a toad seated on his shoulder.
Immortals or tanscendents were practioners of religious Daoism, a school of Chinese thought with its origins in the fifth to third centuries BCE, which was subsequently transformed into an organized religion with a reconized pantheon of deities. Immortals were perfected beings who, through self-cultivation, were able to transcend their normal existence and take leave of their bodies.
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