Category: Netsuke

The ox ‘s head is turned to the left. The eyes double inlaid in bone and horn. The condition is slightly worn with minor scratches to the underside and a small crack behind the neck.

A boxwood netsuke of a seated monkey in good condition with only miniscule dents and scratches.
Scratching itself with the left forepaw and holding a now missing fruit to his mouth. The eye pupils inlaid.

A wood netsuke of a seated boar in good condition. The raised head turned to the left, with long tusks and tiny inlaid eye pupils of horn.

The larger monkey scratching his forearm, the smaller monkey picking fleas. The eye pupils double inlaid in horn. Signed Mitsukuni in an oval reserve.

The group of twelve animals forms a compact shape set on flat cloud base, including tiger, dragon, horse, boar and ox carved as large animals while the others are fitted into spaces between them, partly carved in openwork. All animals with inlaid eye pupils, a few of them lost. Signed Masamitsu in a rounded cartouche.
Please note that due to the ivory, this netsuke can only be shipped within the EU or must be picked up locally.

On the display side, in a flower-shaped reserve, a rain dragon in clouds, on the back the two characters “tô” and “yô” (tôyô = Eastern Sea) on a seigaiha pattern background.
Please note that due to the ivory, this manjû can only be shipped within the EU or must be picked up locally.

This 4-piece Inrô is made of red carved lacquer. In a matching cartouche on one side Shôki with drawn sword on a bridge under a pine tree, on the other side a fleeing oni on a cloud above a rushing river. The inside is . The inside of the compartments is painted with black lacquer.

Snake coiled five times. The scales are represented by notches on the upper part of the body and head.