TETSUGENDO KYUSAI: A FINE LACQUERED WOOD NETSUKE OF REISHI FUNGI, EX BUSHELL By Tetsugendo Kyusai (1879-1938), signed Kyusai Japan, dated 1927, Showa era (1926-1989) Carved in varying shades of red and black lacquer as several stalks of reishi fungus overlapping each other. The surface is brilliantly achieved on both sides of the fungus. Signed KYUSAI 汲哉. With a wood tomobako (storage box) inscribed on the lid Reishi kanshitsu netsuke (dried-lacquer netsuke of a fungus) and signed on the underside Kyusai kore o kizamu (Kyusai carved this) and dated Showa hinoto-u chushun (February 1927) and sealed Kyu. HEIGHT 2.1 cm, LENGTH 4.5 cm Condition: Superb condition. Provenance: U.A. Casal Collection, no. 5218. Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection, sold at Christie’s, Bushell Collection Part IV, 23 April 1991, lot 84. Dr Edmund and Julie Lewis Collection.