A boar-tusk netsuke with a cicada and fernsBy Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1793The tusk of shallow curvature, carved towards the narrow end with a resting cicada, and engraved in delicate kebori with trailing ferns, signed Iwami-shu (Iwami-no-kuni) Enokawa Seiyodo Tomiharu kyonen rokujunisai shite kore o chokoku toki ni Kansei mizunoto-ushi toshi nari (carved at the age of sixty-two by the Eno River by Seiyodo Tomiharu in the fifth, mizunoto-ushi, year of Kansei [1793]), with seals Kotobuki and Shi(?). 10.2cm (4in).注脚猪牙彫根付　蝉　銘 「石見州可愛河青陽堂富春享年六十二歳而彫刻之于時寛政癸丑年也」　1793年Published:Earle, Huthart, p.37, no.17.