Boxwood, delicately carved, engraved, and darkly stained, inlaid eyes made of bone with black pupils. Wolf with aggressively wide opened mouth sitting with the hindlegs of a bested stag between its fore-paws. H.5cm. Signed: Masatomo on rectangular reserve, Ky?to school, cf. MCI, who mentions two of this model on p. 471. Condition B. Closed hole, left ear bumped and re-carved.