47. NETSUKE EN BOIS REPRÉSENTANT KIYOHIME ENTOURANT LA CLOCHE DU DOJOJI Par Tametaka, Nagoya, fin du XVIIIe siècle A WOOD NETSUKE OF KIYOHIME ON THE DOJOJI BELL By Tametaka, Nagoya, late 18th century Kiyohime in mid-transformation into a dragon, pulling back her long hair as her long tail encircles the bell, peering through a crack in the bell to spy on the priest Anchin within before burning him alive; signed in ukibori characters Tametaka. 3.4cm (1 5/16in) high. 木彫根付　道成寺　銘「為隆」　18世紀後期 Provenance: Purchased at Klefisch, Cologne, 9 December 2006, lot 36. Exhibited and Published: Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Netsuke, Inro u. a. Sagemono, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, 30 September 1982-2 January 1983, p.71, no.H/3. The story of Kiyohime and her ultimately destructive unrequited passion for the priest Anchin is the subject of a Noh drama, Dojoji.