The bare-bosomed girl with a knife in her hand is attacked by an octopus which encircles his tentacle around her arms while prying open her skirt with one tentacle and resting his funnel in her lap, the girl leaning backward with obvious pleasure. A towel is placed on the octopus’s head. The ama’s eyes of black horn, the animal’s eyes of mother-of-pearl and black horn. Signed Kiyozumi in an oval reserve.

Category:

Netsuke

Subcategory:

-

Subject:

Animal Daily Life

Material:

Ivory

Age/Country:

19th Century

Artist:

Kyozumi

Provenance/Owner:

TG Collection Uk

Signed:

signed

Type:

Katabori

Height:

22mm mm

Width:

45mm mm

Depth:

45mm mm

ID number:

995