An unusual and humorous boxwood okimono of monkeys and an octopus
By Jigaku, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th centuryComprising a group of several monkeys of different size clambering over each other on a wave-lashed rocky promontory clinging for safety, one reaching down to pull up their companion whose leg is trapped by the tentacles of an octopus; signed on the base with ink-stained characters on a bone-inlaid rectangular reserve Jigaku. 19.2cm (7?in) high.