Interesting antique Japanese Tokanabe ware terracotta charger with relief moulded decoration depicting a scene from the ‘The Labours of Yamato’ where he encounters the demon boar:
Of a sudden, bristling with baffled wrath, snorting furiously, and gnashing his murderous tusks, the monster charged. Hoping to spear him as he passed, Yamato sprang behind the trunk of a tree. But the boar had halted and, with cruel cunning, bided his time. Thereupon our hero found himself in sorry straits. On the one hand yawned a black abyss; on the other stood a threatening monster. To leap into the chasm or to dare the demon were alike certain death.
Good antique condition with some age-related surface wear and small marks. Original kiln stilt marks visible on the back.
Diameter: 34.5 cm or approx. 13.5″
