A rare Boxwood netsuke of Gama senninBy Mitani Goho, Aki Province, dated 1804Half-kneeling and crying out in pain as he is almost crushed beneath the weight of a huge toad resting on his shoulders, one leg trailing down his back, the skin of the frog rendered with ukibori pimples, signed with partially-erased ukibori characters Goho Tani Kotsu saku kinoe-ne mo ... (made by Goho Tani Kotsu in early ..., in the first year of the cycle [1804]). 5.3cm (2 1/8in) high.注脚黄楊彫根付　蝦蟇仙人　銘 「五鳳谷公通作甲子孟囗」　1804年Provenance:J. C. Hawkshaw Collection.Sold at Christie's London, 20 October 1976.Eskenazi Ltd., London.George Lazarnick Collection.Published:Henri L. Joly, auction catalogue of the J. C. Hawkshaw Collection, London, 1911, cat.no.53.Lazarnick, NIA, pp.70 and 412.Eskenazi Ltd., Japanese Netsuke from the Lazarnick Collection, London, 1990, p.70, no.48.INSJ, vol.10, no.1, Spring 1990, back cover.Rokusho 20, p.57, no.76.Burditt, ICGG, p.43, figs.16-17.Earle, Huthart, p.190, no.166.Exhibited:The Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, 1985.