A large kurogaki (black persimmon) wood netsuke of a frog on a lotus leafBy Kanman (1793-1859), Iwami Province, early 19th centuryThe large frog carved in high relief as it squats, with splayed feet, astride the folded leaf, the smaller veins of which are carved in ukibori, signed on the stem with partially-erased ukibori characters Iwami no ju Kanman ... (Kanman, resident of Iwami Province...) with a kao. 11.1cm (4 3/8in).注脚黒柿彫根付　蓮の葉に座る蛙　銘 「石見住貫満囗囗（花押）」　19世紀前期Provenance:Joseph and Edie Kurstin Collection.Published: Rokusho 20, p.48, no.59.Earle, Huthart, p.278, no.247.Burditt, ICK, p.53, fig.15.