An ivory Shibayama-style netsuke inlaid in aogai, bronze and stained ivory and modelled as a standing boy wearing a shishi-mai mask, the mouth of the mask opening to reveal the boy's face -- 1¾.in.high, signed on a red lacquer tablet; and an ivory netsuke inlaid in aogai modelled as a standing figure of a Samurai wearing a straw hat, carrying a daisho to his side, the details stained black -- 2.in.high, signed on a red lacquer tablet.