A boar-tusk netsuke with a centipedeBy Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1789The shallow curved tusk carved in relief with a large centipede running almost the entire length of the tusk, signed Seki-shu Enokawa Seiyodo Shi Tomiharu kyonen gojunanasai shite kore o chokoku toki ni Kansei gan tsuchinoto-tori jugatsu nijukunichi nari (carved at the age of fifty-seven by the Eno River in Iwami Province by Seiyodo Shi[mizu] Tomiharu in the first, tsuchinoto-tori, year of Kansei [1789]) with two seals. 9.8cm (3 7/8in).注脚猪牙彫根付　 蜈蚣　銘 「石州可愛河青陽堂清富春享年五十七歳而彫刻之于時寛政元己酉 十月二十九日也 」　1789年Published:Rokusho 20, p.7, no.4.Burditt, ICWT, p.37, fig.25.Earle, Huthart, p.24, no.4.