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AN EBONY NETSUKE OF A SPIDER ON DRIFTWOOD A BOAR-TOOTH NETSUKE OF A CHILLI
By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, By Shimizu Shojiro, Iwami Province, dated 1789
late 18th/early 19th century A small, smooth chilli with a detachable stalk made of stag-antler,
The round-bodied spider crawling over the end of a large piece of signed Nihon San’indo Iwami-shu (Iwami-no-kuni) Enokawa Seiyodo Shi
striated and well-weathered driftwood, its splayed legs partially undercut, Tomiharu no otoko Shimizu Shojiro seinen junisai shite kore o chokoku
signed Iwami-shu (Iwami-no-kuni) Seiyodo Tomiharu chokoku (carved by toki ni Kansei gan tsuchinoto-tori uru’u rokugatsu nijuyukunichi nari
Seiyodo Tomiharu of Iwami Province). (carved by the Eno River in Iwami Province in the San’indo region of
8.4cm (3¼in). Japan by Shimizu Shojiro, son of Seiyodo Shi[mizu] Tomiharu at the age
of twelve on the twenty-ninth day of the sixth, intercalary, month of the
£2,500 - 3,000 first, tsuchinoto-tori, year of Kansei [1789]).
JPY360,000 - 440,000 7.1cm (2¾in) long.
US$3,300 - 3,900
£2,000 - 2,500
黒檀彫根付 流木に蜘蛛 銘 「石見州青陽堂富春彫刻」 JPY290,000 - 360,000
18世紀後期/19世紀前期 US$2,600 - 3,300

Published: 猪歯・鹿角彫根付 唐辛子 銘 「日本山陰道石見州可愛河青陽堂清
Earle, Huthart, p.95, no.76. 富春男清水小次郎生年十二歳而彫刻之于時寛政元己酉閏六月二十有
九日也 」 1789年
41 * Provenance:
A LARGE EBONY NETSUKE OF A CICADA ON A LEAF Carlo Monzino Collection.
By Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, Sold at Sotheby’s, London, 21 June 1995, lot 239.
late 18th/early 19th century
The insect resting on two layered leaves from a long stalk, one partially Published:
folded to form the himotoshi, signed in a raised rectangular reserve Earle, Huthart, p.97, no.78.
Sekiyo Hako Seiyodo cho (carved by Seiyodo at Hako in Sekiyo).
9cm (3½in).
G. Lazarnick in NIA, p.1120, mentions a netsuke of a snail signed ‘...
£5,000 - 5,500 made by the second son of Tomiharu, at the age of twelve years old.’
Lazarnick opines that the calligraphy, as on the present example, is very
JPY730,000 - 800,000 fine and may have been engraved by his father.
US$6,600 - 7,200
For a similar example, see N. Davey, MTH, p.247, no.764, erroneously
黒檀彫根付 葉に止まる蝉 銘 「石陽波江青陽堂彫」 identified as a daikon radish, and attributed to Tomiharu, though also
18世紀後期/19世紀前期 most likely carved by Shojiro at age twelve.

Published:
Ueda, NNK, no.55. 43 *
Hull Grundy, NCIS, fig.43 A BOXWOOD NETSUKE OF A SNAIL ON FUNGUS
Shichida, INC, no.25. By Sasaki Tomiaki (born 1746), late 18th/early 19th century
Meinertzhagen, MCI, vol.2, p.882. The snail gliding over the stalk and cap of a fungus, fully extended from
Rokusho 20, p.16, no.21. its shell, its body embellished all over with ukibori pimples, signed in
Earle, Huthart, p.96, no.77. ukibori characters Kaishundo Tomiaki kore o horu (carved by
Kaishundo Tomiaki).
6.8cm (2 5/8in).
£4,000 - 4,500
JPY580,000 - 650,000
US$5,200 - 5,900

黄楊彫根付 万年茸に蝸牛 銘 「回春堂富明彫之」
18世紀後期/19世紀前期

Published:
Lazarnick, NIA, p.1110.
Rokusho 20, p.63, no.86.
Earle, Huthart, p.98, no.79.

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