An ivory netsuke

LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

细节
An ivory netsuke
Late 18th/early 19th century
Of the Heian Period poetess Ono no Komachi, seated holding a brush and a tanzaku poem slip
4.4cm. high

拍品专文

The poetess is usually shown as an aged mendicant nun, often seated on a sotoba, (a temporary wooden grave tablet), at the end of her life, having rejected all her suitors. Depictions of her in her youthful beauty are rare.