Netsuke, toggle of ivory

This ivory netsuke is of a man planing wood inside the section of a barrel. A netsuke is used to fasten an inro, a small lacquered container, which hung from the sash of a man's kimono. They became miniature art forms in their own right.

This view of the base of a netsuke of a man sitting within the section of a barrel he is planing shows the care taken in carving even the underside of a netsuke. The piece is signed but the signature has not yet been identified.

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