Yasufusa 保房 (Saitō Yasuo 斎藤保雄)
Yasufusa 保房 (Saitō Yasuo 斎藤保雄)
Japanese, born 1931
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BiographyYasufusa 保房 (Saitō Yasuo 斎藤保雄), b. 1931. Born in Tokyo. At nineteen, began to learn finish carving under his uncle, Yoshikane, and later, under his father, studied the caving of women’s figures. Worked with his cousin Bishu. First carved manju netsuke, later focused solely on animals.