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330 WOOD AND IVORY CARVINGS, ETC.
No. 738 '
In relief upon an ivory Box. Tani-naga. Taninaga^
the name of the maker.
I
No. 739. No. 740.
Engraved upon an ivory Netsuke. Mitsu-hisa. Mitsuhisa,
the maker the lower characters are his mark.
;
No. 741.
Engraved upon an ivory Netsuke. The larger inscrip-
tion may probably be read as Hiyo-roku, but the upper
character, in the form of a gourd, is given in place of the
word Hiyo, which expresses that form the smaller inscrip-
;
tion reads : Gioku-ju. Giokuju Hiyoroku^ the name of the
maker.
No. 742.
Engraved upon an ivory Netsuke. Ko-min-sai. Komin-
sai, the name of the maker.