A Boar's Tusk Netsuke**
Edo period (19th century), with inscription Iwami kuni Kaaigawa Seiyodo Bunshojo chokoku koko ni toki Bunsei tsuchinoto ushi [Carved by Seiyodo Bunsho of Iwami province (by the) Kaai River. The time now is the twelfth year of the Bunsei era (1829)], final line of inscription now illegible
Carved with a spider in high relief and ferns incised and stained black, the himotoshi a single hole on the underside
4¼in. (10.2cm.) long
A Boar's Tusk Netsuke**
Edo period (19th century), with inscription Iwami kuni Kaaigawa Seiyodo Bunshojo chokoku koko ni toki Bunsei tsuchinoto ushi [Carved by Seiyodo Bunsho of Iwami province (by the) Kaai River. The time now is the twelfth year of the Bunsei era (1829)], final line of inscription now illegible
Carved with a spider in high relief and ferns incised and stained black, the himotoshi a single hole on the underside
4¼in. (10.2cm.) long
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