A boar tusk netsuke with a spider
By Hoodai Fushiki, Iwami Province, 19th centuryCarved towards the tip on one face with a large spider; signed Iwami-shu (Iwami-no-kuni) Tsunozato Hoodai Fushiki (Hoodai Fushiki of Tsunozato in Iwami Province). 10.5cm (4 1/8in).
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猪牙彫根付 蜘蛛 銘 「石見州都濃里鳳凰臺不識」 19世紀Provenance:Yada Collection.George Lazarnick Collection.Published:Lazarnick, NIA, pp.71, 488.Earle, Huthart, p.386, no.360.This netsuke was formerly in the possession of the Yada, a prominent Iwami family. The location of Tsunozato has not been identified, although there is a Tsuno-machi on the Japan Sea coast, between Gotsu and Hamada. The Tsuno family are recorded as living in Iwami Province from the sixteenth century.