A boar-tusk netsuke with a spiderBy Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1793The tusk carved in low relief with a small spider crawling near the tip, its legs undercut, eyes inlaid in dark horn, signed Iwami-shu (Iwami-no-kuni) Enokawa Seiyodo Tomiharu kyonen rokujunisai shite kore o chokoku mizunoe-tora Kansei mizunoto-ushi toshi nari (carved at the age of sixty-two by the Eno River in Iwami Province by Seiyodo Tomiharu in the fifth, mizunoe-tora, year [1782] or the fifth, mizunoto-ushi, year of Kansei [1793]), with a seal Kotobuki, an unread seal and a pot seal. 11cm (4 3/8in).注脚猪牙彫根付　 蜘蛛　 銘 「石見州可愛河青陽堂富春享年六十二歳而彫刻之壬寅寛政癸丑年也」　1793年Published:Earle, Huthart, p.28, no.8.