A kurogaki (black persimmon) wood netsuke of a minogame on driftwood
By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1796-7The large turtle with a long flowing tail walking over a striated section of driftwood; signed Sekiyo Enokawa Seiyodo Tomiharu kyonen rokujugosai shite kore o chokoku (carved at the age of sixty-five by the Eno River in Sekiyo by Seiyodo Tomiharu). 8.2cm (3?in).
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黒柿彫根付 流木に乗る蓑亀 銘 「石陽可愛河青陽堂富春享年六十五歳而彫刻之」 1796-7年Published:Lazarnick, NIA, p.1131.Earle, Huthart, p.49, no.28.