A boxwood netsuke of a frog on driftwoodBy Mitani Goho, Aki Province, 1809The frog squatting on an old, weathered piece of driftwood, facing ahead and with one foot resting on the edge of a hole in the wood, its skin covered with ukibori pimples and its eyes inlaid, signed Bunka tsuchinoto-mi Aki Goho (Goho, autumn of the tsuchinoto-mi year of Bunka [1809]). 5.2cm (2in).注脚黄楊彫根付　流木に蛙　銘 「文化己巳秋五鳳」　1809年Provenance:Anne Hull Grundy Collection.Published: Ducros, NS, p.94, no.196.Rokusho 20, p.58, no.78.Burditt, ICGG, p.44, figs. 22-23.Earle, Huthart, p.184, no.159.