A small boar-tusk netsuke with a spiderBy Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1786Carved in high relief with a crawling spider, its legs undercut, signed Iji Tenmei rokuryushu juyuhachinichi Sekiyo Enokawa Seiyodo Shi Tomiharu Kyonen gojusansai shite kore o chokoku mono nari (carved by Seiyodo Shi[mizu] Tomiharu by the Eno River in Sekiyo, at the age of fifty-three, on the eighteenth day of the fifth month of the sixth, hinoe-uma, year of Tenmei [1786]) with a seal Tomiharu and a pot seal. 8.8cm (3¼in).注脚猪牙彫根付　 蜘蛛　 銘 「維時天明六竜集丙午五月十有八日於石陽可愛河青陽堂清富春享年五十三歳而彫刻之者也」　1786年Published: Lazarnick, NIA, p.1141.Earle, Huthart, p.27, no.7.Sekiyo (present-day Gotsu) was the area in southern Iwami Province where Tomiharu and his family lived.