JAPAN - Middle EDO period (1603 - 1868) - Lot 131

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JAPAN - Middle EDO period (1603 - 1868) - Lot 131
JAPAN - Middle EDO period (1603 - 1868) Iron Kawari gata in the shape of a catfish (namazu) and double gourd (hyôtan namazu: "a gourd against a namazu", illustration of the Zen apologue "It is easier to catch a namazu with a gourd than to attain Enlightenment"). Signed Hidefusa. H. 6.8 cm. Featured in the exhibition Samouraïs. Guerriers et esthètes, Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire, Strasbourg, from March 11 to July 13, 2022, and is reproduced in the exhibition catalog, no. 073, p.108.
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