A buffalo-hoof netsuke of a cicadaBy Seiyodo Tomiharu (1733-1810), Iwami Province, dated 1794The cicada resting on a section of driftwood, from which grows the stalk and foliage of a kohone plant, signed Iwami-no-kuni Enokawa Seiyodo Shi Tomiharu kyonen rokujunisai shite kore o chokoku toki ni Kansei kinoe-tora natsu nari (carved at the age of sixty-two by the Eno River in Iwami Province by Seiyodo Shi[mizu] Tomiharu in the summer of the sixth, kinoe-tora, year of Kansei [1794]). 8.5cm (3 1/8in).注脚水牛蹄彫根付　流木に止まる蝉　銘 「石見国可愛河青陽堂清富春享年六十二歳而彫刻之于時寛政甲寅夏也」　1794年Published: Lazarnick, NIA, p.1328.Rokusho 20, p.17, no.23.Earle, Huthart, p.94, no.75.