A boar-tusk netsuke with a spiderBy Seiyodo Tomiharu, (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1793The short tusk carved in high relief to one end with a spider, its legs undercut and eyes inlaid, signed Iwami-no-kuni Enokawa Seiyodo Shi Tomiharu kyonen rokujuissai shite kore o chokoku toki ni Kansei go ryushu mizunoto-ushi fuyu juichigatsu nijukunichi nari (carved at the age of sixty-one by the Eno River by Seiyodo Shi[mizu] Tomiharu on the 29th day of the 11th month during the winter of the fifth, mizunoto-ushi, year of Kansei [1793]). 8cm (3 1/8in).注脚猪牙彫根付　 蜘蛛　 銘 「石見国可愛河青陽堂清富春享年六十一歳而彫刻之于時寛政五竜集癸丑冬十一月二十九日也」　1793年Provenance:Joseph and Edie Kurstin Collection.Published: Earle, Huthart, p.29, no.9.