Japan. Meiji period. 2nd half of the 19th c. Boxwood with finely engraved details, darkly accentuated. The little gleeman-monkey with the turned mask of Okame in one hand, a bell tree in the other. Height 4.1cm. Sign.: Hojitsu, cf. LA p. 477, T?ky?, 1872 gest. Condition A.