A boxwood netsuke of a frog in bambooBy Mitani Goho, Aki Province, late 18th/early 19th centuryThe frog attempting to lever itself out of a broken-off section of bamboo, the creature naturalistically carved with details in ukibori, the bamboo gouged with simulated worm holes with a small shoot emerging from one side, signed in ukibori and incised characters Dainitto San'yo Aki Goho Mitani Kotsu kore o sei (this was made by Goho Mitani Kotsu of Aki in the San'yo region of Great Japan). 4.7cm (1 7/8in).注脚黄楊彫根付　竹の中の蛙　銘 「大日東山陽安芸五鳳三谷公通製之」　18世紀後期/19世紀前期Provenance:Harry Seymour Trower Collection.W. W. Winkworth Collection.M. T. Hindson Collection.M. S. Newstead Collection.Published:Henri L. Joly, H. Seymour Trower Collection of Japanese Art, London, Glendining & Co., 1913, cat.no. 33.Hurtig, MNA, no.598.Davey, MTH, p.252, no.776.Meinertzhagen, MCI, vol.1, p.83.Rokusho 20, p.55, no.73.Earle, Huthart, p.182, no.156.