A kurogaki (black persimmon) wood and boxwood netsuke of a frog on driftwoodBy Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810) and Seiyodo Gansui (1809-1848), Iwami Province, late 18th/early 19th centuryThe small boxwood frog squatting diagonally on the striated black persimmon section of rotting weathered wood, signed Tomiharu chokoku no kaeru o mochiite, Gansui futatabi kore o kizamu (recarved by Gansui using a frog carved by Tomiharu), with a wood tomobako storage box inscribed outside the lid Gansui futatabi kore o kizamu, Tomiharu chokoku no kaeru o mochiite zaimei (With signature of 'recarved by Gansui using a frog carved by Tomiharu'), the inside of the lid inscribed mizunoe-inu doshi hatsuaki Gado kan (examined by Gado in the early autumn of the mizunoe-inu year [1922]), with a seal Gado. 4.8cm (1 7/8in).注脚黄楊・黒柿彫根付　流木に乗る蛙　銘 「須富春彫刻之蛙巌水再刻之 」　18世紀後期/19世紀前期Provenance:Edward Wrangham Collection.Published:Lazarnick, NIA, pp.394-5.Rokusho 20, p.39, no.47.Burditt, ICGG, p.35, fig.1.Earle, Huthart, p.162, no.141.