An ebony netsuke of a stick of charcoal By Wasui, Nagasaki, dated 1803 Carved in a realistic manner, a hole on one end with an inserted piece bearing inscriptions, forming the himotoshi; signed and dated Kyowa sannen i jugatsu toka gohyakurokujurokuban Kiyo Wasui saku (made by Wasui of Kiyo on the tenth day of the tenth month of the third, boar, year of Kyowa [1803], his 566th piece) and inscribed with a winter haiku. 4.9cm (1 7/8in). Fußnoten 黒檀彫根付 炭 銘 「享和三年亥十月十日五百六十六番崎陽和翠作」 1803年 Published: Lazarnick, NIA, pp.1210-11. Rokusho 20, p.73, no.107. Earle, Huthart, p.330, no.303. The poem reads in part: Yaizumi mo / sude ni . . . / sumisa kana (Even this stick of / charcoal is already burnt . . . / that is how cold it is).
An ebony netsuke of a stick of charcoal By Wasui, Nagasaki, dated 1803 Carved in a realistic manner, a hole on one end with an inserted piece bearing inscriptions, forming the himotoshi; signed and dated Kyowa sannen i jugatsu toka gohyakurokujurokuban Kiyo Wasui saku (made by Wasui of Kiyo on the tenth day of the tenth month of the third, boar, year of Kyowa [1803], his 566th piece) and inscribed with a winter haiku. 4.9cm (1 7/8in). Fußnoten 黒檀彫根付 炭 銘 「享和三年亥十月十日五百六十六番崎陽和翠作」 1803年 Published: Lazarnick, NIA, pp.1210-11. Rokusho 20, p.73, no.107. Earle, Huthart, p.330, no.303. The poem reads in part: Yaizumi mo / sude ni . . . / sumisa kana (Even this stick of / charcoal is already burnt . . . / that is how cold it is).
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