An ebony netsuke of a frog on driftwood Attributed to Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1790 The small frog squatting on a piece of weathered wood, its legs splayed, its eyes inlaid in pale and dark horn; signed with partially legible ukibori characters Iwami-shu (Iwami-no-kuni) Enokawa . . . saku Kansei kanoe-inu . . . gatsu (made by . . . the Eno River in Iwami Province in the . . . month of the kanoe-inu year of Kansei [1790]). 5.8cm (2¼in). Fußnoten 黒檀彫根付 流木に蛙 銘「石見州可愛河囗囗寛政庚戌囗月」 1790年 Published: Lazarnick, NIA, p.1123. Earle, Huthart, p.69, no.50.
An ebony netsuke of a frog on driftwood Attributed to Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1790 The small frog squatting on a piece of weathered wood, its legs splayed, its eyes inlaid in pale and dark horn; signed with partially legible ukibori characters Iwami-shu (Iwami-no-kuni) Enokawa . . . saku Kansei kanoe-inu . . . gatsu (made by . . . the Eno River in Iwami Province in the . . . month of the kanoe-inu year of Kansei [1790]). 5.8cm (2¼in). Fußnoten 黒檀彫根付 流木に蛙 銘「石見州可愛河囗囗寛政庚戌囗月」 1790年 Published: Lazarnick, NIA, p.1123. Earle, Huthart, p.69, no.50.
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