A Lightly Stained Boxwood Netsuke

EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)

細節

A Lightly Stained Boxwood Netsuke
Edo Period (18th Century)
The boxwood curiously carved with the Sho-chiku-bai [the "Three Friends" - pine, bamboo and plum] portrayed as if applied over a half-section of bamboo
26 x 1.3/8 x 0.7/8in. (5.5 x 3.5 x 2.2cm.)

拍品專文

The characters in the upper section appear to read as follows:

Kakumasa/copy/exist/tell/three friends/I write what I think/three elder brothers

and in the lower section:

Fountain/east/come/same place, found together/eight younger brothers grow/chisel/brush