By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1793 The tusk carved in low relief with a small spider crawling near the tip, its legs undercut, eyes inlaid in dark horn, signed Iwami-shu (Iwami-no-kuni) Enokawa Seiyodo Tomiharu kyonen rokujunisai shite kore o chokoku mizunoe-tora Kansei mizunoto-ushi toshi nari (carved at the age of sixty-two by the Eno River in Iwami Province by Seiyodo Tomiharu in the fifth, mizunoe-tora, year [1782] or the fifth, mizunoto-ushi, year of Kansei [1793]), with a seal Kotobuki, an unread seal and a pot seal. 11cm (4 3/8in).
By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1793 The tusk carved in low relief with a small spider crawling near the tip, its legs undercut, eyes inlaid in dark horn, signed Iwami-shu (Iwami-no-kuni) Enokawa Seiyodo Tomiharu kyonen rokujunisai shite kore o chokoku mizunoe-tora Kansei mizunoto-ushi toshi nari (carved at the age of sixty-two by the Eno River in Iwami Province by Seiyodo Tomiharu in the fifth, mizunoe-tora, year [1782] or the fifth, mizunoto-ushi, year of Kansei [1793]), with a seal Kotobuki, an unread seal and a pot seal. 11cm (4 3/8in).
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