Tomokazu wood netsuke - Zodiac collection.

N2

A wood netsuke of a rat clasping a chestnut.

Japan, 19th century.
Signed: Tomokazu, Gifu
Provenance: T. L. Elliot.
Published: Item 221 'In Search of Netsuke and Inro' by George A. Cohen.

A fine and typical work by Kano Tomokazu, who worked in Gifu during the first half of the nineteenth century.