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A BOAR-TUSK NETSUKE A KUROGAKI (BLACK PERSIMMON) A KUROGAKI (BLACK PERSIMMON)
WITH AN APPLIED SNAIL WOOD NETSUKE OF A MINOGAME WOOD NETSUKE OF A MINOGAME
By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), ON DRIFTWOOD ON DRIFTWOOD
Iwami Province, dated 1785-6 By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810),
The short tusk applied with a snail of pale Iwami Province, dated 1796-7 Iwami Province, late 18th/early 19th century
honey-coloured horn emerging from its shell, The large turtle with long flowing tail walking The small turtle with a long hairy tail crawling
signed Iji Tenmei gonen ryushu kinoto-mi over the striated section of driftwood, signed along the edge of a large section of strongly-
fuyu rogetsu jugonichi Seiyodo Shi Tomiharu Sekiyo Enokawa Seiyodo Tomiharu kyonen grained and striated rotten wood, signed
kyonen gojusansai Sekiyo Iwami-gawabe ni oite rokujugosai shite kore o chokoku (carved at the Seiyodo Tomiharu.
chokoku mono nari (carved at the age of fifty- age of sixty-five by the Eno River in Sekiyo by 7cm (2¾in).
two by the Iwami River in Sekiyo by Seiyodo Seiyodo Tomiharu).
Shi[mizu] Tomiharu in winter, during the last 8.2cm (3¼in). £4,000 - 6,000
month of the fifth, kinoto-mi, year of Kansei JPY580,000 - 870,000
[1785-6]), with a seal Tomiharu and a pot seal. £6,000 - 8,000 US$5,200 - 7,900
8.8cm (3¼in). JPY870,000 - 1,200,000
US$7,900 - 10,000 黒柿彫根付 流木に乗る蓑亀
£5,000 - 5,500 銘 「青陽堂富春」 18世紀後期/19世紀前期
JPY730,000 - 800,000
US$6,600 - 7,200 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」 Published:
猪牙彫根付 蝸牛 銘 「維時天明五年竜集乙 1796-7年 Earle, Huthart, p.50, no.29.
巳冬臘月十五日青陽堂清富春享年五十三歳而
於石陽石見河辺彫刻者也」 1785-6年 Published:
Lazarnick, NIA, p.1131.
Provenance: Earle, Huthart, p.49, no.28.
Raymond and Frances Bushell Collection.
Sold at Christie’s, New York, Part IV, 23 April
1991, lot 89.
Published:
Rokusho 20, p.6, no.3.
Earle, Huthart, p.38, no.18.
The Iwami River is another and rarely used
name for the Eno River.

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