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: I couldn't find much biographical data on Tomotada - best info I could find was in "The Netsuke Handbook of Ueda Reikichi".  Dates are uncertain - "prior to Temmei" (Temei = 1781-1788).  And he lived in Kyoto. In Norman Sandfield's "The Ultimate Netsuke Bibliography" there are two references to Tomotada: Bernie Hurtig: "The Tomotada Story", Jnl Intl Netsuke Society, Vol 2, #2 (Fall, 1974), pp 19-25; and Anne Hull Grundy: "Tomotada and Okatomo, in Relation to the Kyoto School of Netsuke Carvers," The Antique Collector, Part 1, June, 1963, pp 107-113.  I don't have those references, but you might get photocopies from the Toledo Museum of Art, to which Norman's library is being donated (www.toledomuseum.org/library).  For any other questions about where to look for information about netsukes and netsuke-stuff, I'd recommend Norman's book.

: Eric Knudson



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