细节 A WOOD SCULPTURE OF TWO TURTULESMEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY-EARLY 20TH CENTURY), SIGNED SANIN KISAI (ARAKAWA KISAI; 1827-1906)Finely carved as a small turtle on top of a large turtle, the surface finished to resemble turtles skin and shell, eyes inlaid with crystal, signature on underside6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm.) long 出版 Izumo Culture Heritage Museum, Izumo no mokucho ten (Wood sculpture of Izumo) (Izumo City: Takenaga printing Inc., 2020), cat.no.55. 展览 Izumo no mokucho ten (Wood sculptures of Izumo), Izumo Culture Heritage Museum, 10 October-1 November, 3-29 November 2020来源: Born in Izumo in nowadays Shimane Prefecture, Arakawa Kisai is a well celebrated as a genius sculptor. On top of an almighty artist who also mastered painting, calligraphy, metalworks, he was a physicist. Arakawa’s sculpture Inadahime was exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.