An umimatsu (sea-pine) netsuke of a cicada on a branchBy Arakawa Kisai, Izumo, late 19th century
A large gnarled and partly polished branch on which a large cicada is carved in relief, its wings drawn in, the material of variegated colour; signed San'in nanajuissai o Kisai (Kisai, an old man of 71 from the San'in[do] region). 6.7cm (2 5/8in).注脚海松彫根付　枝に止まる蝉　銘 「山陰七十一翁亀斎」　19世紀後期

Provenance:
Anne Hull Grundy Collection.
George Lazarnick Collection.

Published:
Hull Grundy, NCIS, fig.92.
Lazarnick, NIA, p.623.
Meinertzhagen, MCI, p.342.
Rokusho 20, p.76, no.112.
Earle, Huthart, p.343, no.317.

Kisai exhibited sculpture and panels under the name Arakawa Shigenosuke of Shimane Prefecture at the Chicago World's Columbian Exhibition (1893), and at the Paris Exposition Universelle (1900).