A boxwood netsuke of a toad emerging from a lotus podBy Mitani Goho, Aki Province, late 18th/early 19th centuryThe toad emerging from the empty pod, which is simulated as split and broken in places, the trailing stalk carved in relief beneath, the skin of the toad partially covered with ukibori pimples and its eyes inlaid, signed Goho rojin saku (made by Goho in old age). 4.8cm (1 7/8in).注脚黄楊彫根付　蓮根に蝦蟇　銘 「五鳳老人作」　18世紀後期/19世紀前期Provenance:Anne Hull Grundy Collection.Published:Hull Grundy, NCIS, figs.50-53.Meinertzhagen, MCI, vol.1, p.83.Rokusho 20, p.57, no.77.Burditt, ICGG, p.45, figs.25-26.Earle, Huthart, p.180, no.154.