35. NETSUKE EN BOIS D'UN YAKKO EXÉCUTANT LA DANSE DES MOINEAUX Par Shojusai, fin du XVIIIe siècle A WOOD NETSUKE OF A YAKKO (PORTER/FOOTMAN) PERFORMING 'THE SPARROW DANCE' By Shojusai, late 18th century The yakko at leisure, standing, scantily-clad in a loin cloth and short jacket, open at the waist, exposing his huge protuberant abdomen and drooping chest, balancing on his right leg about to pirouette, both arms raised and gripping the edges of both sleeves, imitating the wings of a sparrow, his eyes double inlaid; signed on the reverse, along the left side Shojusai. 8.2cm (3¼in) high. 木彫根付　奴　銘「松寿斎」　18世紀後期 Provenance: Sold at Rossini, Paris, 19 November 2005, lot 130. Published: INSJ, vol.25, no.1, p.17, no.130. Sagemonoya, TND, p.76, no.68, and front cover. Exhibited and Published: Bandini, IAN, p.42, no.69. NS19, p.68, no.116.