A boar-tusk netsuke with a centipedeBy Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1796The tusk of shallow curve, carved in relief with a centipede walking along the narrow end, its body undulating and its legs partially undercut, signed Iwami-shu (Iwami-no-kuni) Enokawa Seiyodo Tomiharu kyonen rokujugosai shite kore o chokoku toki ni Kansei hinoe-tatsu no aki nari (carved at the age of sixty-five by the Eno River in Iwami Province by Seiyodo Tomiharu in the autumn of the hinoe-tatsu year of Kansei [1796]) with a seal Tomiharu and a pot seal. 10.2cm (4in).注脚猪牙彫根付　 蜈蚣　 銘 「石見州可愛河青陽堂富春享年六十五歳而彫刻之于時寛政丙辰之秋也」　1796年Provenance:Joseph and Edie Kurstin Collection.Published: Okada and Neill, RIB, no.33.Lazarnick, NIA, p.1144.Earle, Huthart, p.23, no.3.