Ivory, very finely carved, engraved, and stained. Kiyohime, with agressively opened mouth, winding around the bell of the Miidera Temple. She is holding a hammer in her left hand to toll the bell, in order to entice the hidden Anchin, of whom only the feet and the kimono are visible beneath. Height 4.8cm, width 4.4cm. Sign.: Tomochika, cf. MCI p. 885ff. Condition B/C. Handle of the hammer broken off.
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