Two Japanese ivory netsuke of the legend of Kiyohime, both signed, Edo/Meiji period (19thC), H 5 cm - W 3 cm - D 3,3 cm - 23g / H 4,5 cm - W 2,8 cm - D 3,3 cm - 23g (+)

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Two Japanese ivory netsuke of the legend of Kiyohime, both signed, Edo/Meiji period (19thC), H 5 cm - W 3 cm - D 3,3 cm - 23g / H 4,5 cm - W 2,8 cm - D 3,3 cm - 23g (+) The legend relates how a priest named Anchin, making a pilgrimage to the Kumano Shrine in southern Kii, lodged at the home of a shoji, where the manor official's daughter Kiyohime fell in love with the young monk. In order to avoid her, he deceives her with a false promise to return and continues his journey. Kiyohime became furious by his rejection and pursued him in rage. At the edge of the Hidaka River, Anchin asked a ferryman to help him to cross the river, but told him not to let her cross with his boat. When Kiyohime saw that Anchin was escaping her, she jumped into the river and started to swim after him. While swimming in the torrent of the Hidaka river, she transformed into a serpent or dragon because of her rage. When Anchin saw her coming after him in her monstrous new form, he ran into the temple called Dojo-ji. He asked the priests of Dojo-ji for help and they hid him under the bonsho bell of the temple. However, the serpent smelled him hiding inside the bell and started to coil around it. She banged the bell loudly several times with her tail, then gave a great belch of fire so powerful that it melted the bell and killed Anchin. (+) CITES certificate for commercial activities inside the EU, no. 2025/BE04326/CE

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