Seated Baku (Mythical Creature Devouring Nightmares) 18th century Japan The baku is a mythical creature known to devour dreams and nightmares. It has the trunk of an elephant, the tail of an ox and the paws of a tiger .This piece is among the finest netsuke in the collection. Its surface is covered with slightly rounded protuberances, found on eighteenth-century representations of supernatural Seated Baku (Mythical Creature Devouring Nightmares). Japan. 18th century. Ivory. Edo period (1615–1868). Netsuke

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