By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1793 The tusk of shallow curvature, carved towards the narrow end with a resting cicada, and engraved in delicate kebori with trailing ferns, signed Iwami-shu (Iwami-no-kuni) Enokawa Seiyodo Tomiharu kyonen rokujunisai shite kore o chokoku toki ni Kansei mizunoto-ushi toshi nari (carved at the age of sixty-two by the Eno River by Seiyodo Tomiharu in the fifth, mizunoto-ushi, year of Kansei [1793]), with seals Kotobuki and Shi(?). 10.2cm (4in).
By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1793 The tusk of shallow curvature, carved towards the narrow end with a resting cicada, and engraved in delicate kebori with trailing ferns, signed Iwami-shu (Iwami-no-kuni) Enokawa Seiyodo Tomiharu kyonen rokujunisai shite kore o chokoku toki ni Kansei mizunoto-ushi toshi nari (carved at the age of sixty-two by the Eno River by Seiyodo Tomiharu in the fifth, mizunoto-ushi, year of Kansei [1793]), with seals Kotobuki and Shi(?). 10.2cm (4in).
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