Six wood netsuke


Edo period (1615-1868), 19th centuryComprising: a woman holding a bolt of silk and an umbrella, unsigned, 6cm (2½in) high; a foreign fisherman holding down a large fish on a watery base, signed illegibly, 3.5cm (1 3/8in) high; a hunter seated with a captured fox in a sack on his back, inscribed Hidemasa, 3.2cm (1¼in) wide; Konoha Tengu stirring miso with his long nose, unsigned, 3.8cm (1½in) wide; Raijin seated on his large thunder drum, unsigned, 3.5cm (1 3/8in) high; and a kappa trying to entice a frog from beneath a domed lotus leaf, signed Yuzan, 4.2cm (1 5/8in) wide. (6).