A small boxwood netsuke of Nitta No Shira sitting backwards on the back of a runnig boar and about to cut off it’s tail.
Underneath the boar, a soldier wearing a jingasa and holding a bamboo pole.

Category:

Netsuke

Subcategory:

-

Subject:

Mythological

Material:

Wood

Age/Country:

19th Century

Artist:

-

Provenance/Owner:

EW coll.

Signed:

unsigned

Type:

Katabori

Height:

3.3cm mm

Width:

4.4cm mm

Depth:

2cm mm

ID number:

1092