Project Description
Iwami Boar’s Tusk Netsuke with Centipede, by Tomiharu
The long centipede carved in high relief
Signed: Tomiharu with 3 seals, one of which reads tomiharu. Iwami, dated 1793
Length: 12.6 cm
The inscription reads: iwami shu kaaigawa seiyodo tomiharu kyonen rokujuissai nishite chokoku kore [wo] kokoni toki kansei mizunoto-ushi no natsu gogatsu nijuroku nichi nari [Iwami province by the Kaai river Seiyodo Tomiharu, aged 61, carved this. Kansei, summer of the year of the ox, 26th day of the 5th month]
Provenance:
Willi Bosshard, acquired in 1978
Literature:
Paul Moss and Max Rutherston, ‘Such Stuff As Dreams are Made on’, 2008, no. 48
MR3895