Lot 173 Dα

A small wood tonkotsu with kiseruzutsu and a wood netsuke. 19th century

a) The tokotsu carved to the outside with a dragon, the eye pupils inlaid, damaged, the wood ojime in shape of a tanuki with a hat and a gourd with the character hi no yo kokoro (Beware of fire), the kiseruzutsu of otôshi-zutsu type in shape of a tanuki, on the rverse dated cyclically kanoe-tatsu (1880) and the character ka with kaô?, and b) a large mask of a fox, chip to one ear. (2)
Height a) tonkotsu 4.7 cm; b) 7.1 cm