Three wooden netsuke

Description:

Japan, Oni signed Toyomasa, woman with child sign. Shunkosai, 19th cent.
H. 3,6; B. 3,2; H. 5,4 cm
1: Two finely carved oni, one oni covering the eyes of the oni walking in front of him with his hands, signed on the base plate. 2: Three children playing in medium brown boxwood. 3: Mother with fan standing next to a child, signed on the back.
From an old private collection in the Rhineland, collected prior to 1985, lot nos. 73, 74 and 53 (53 with annotation Gross, Wiesbaden 1/75) - the Oni group minimally polished at the base plate, the group with woman and child with traces of wear