Another Netsuki identification

[Bmanners]

Love this little netsuki. Just something about peering into holes or around corners so to speak and getting a suprise. Anyway would love to know the age of this one and who did it. I have had for at least 35 years. 

[Bugyotsuji]

Sweet. Check out hermits (sennin) with a peach. (To-bo-saku Sen-nin for example.)

 

The signature looks like 石斎 Sekisai. There was a known *Netsuke artist listed in Ito Ryoichi (An Introduction to Japanese Netsuke) who worked (mainly in ceramics) in the latter part of the Edo period.

 

(*Pronounced 'Netsukay' or 'Netsukeh')

[k morita]

Hi,
Looks like 石恋(Sekiren) to me.

[Bugyotsuji]

If it is Sekiren, as Morita San says, then other possibilities appear, such as a spurious signature ar a later (unlisted) carver.

 

There was also a Sekiran, who used a variety of signatures, and who carved classical Chinese subjects such as sages. See this entry on page 718 of the MCI.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[k morita]

Hi,
you are correct.
It is correct to read as Sekiran.
Therefore, the signature is 石巒　(Sekiran), not 石戀　(Sekiren).