Netsuke of Demon and an Old Man with a Scroll

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Wooden sculpture, rectangular base with rounded edges, dark brown color. A bearded man with a large head, thick eyebrows and mustache, protruding eyes, and a bulbous nose. He wears a hat and crouches on all fours on a rectangular block, hands and feet visible. Behind, a smaller figure climbs on the back of a rectangular block; figure has a large head with a furrowed brow and protruding eyes, one arm bent at the elbow and the other obscured. Object on top resembles a kite or umbrella. The background is gray. Title: Netsuke of Demon and an Old Man with a Scroll. Artist unidentified.