TADAMITSU (ACTIVE EARLY 19TH CENTURY) A wood netsuke of a boy under a shishimai mask Edo period (1615-1868), early 19th century

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TADAMITSU (ACTIVE EARLY 19TH CENTURY)
A wood netsuke of a boy under a shishimai mask
Edo period (1615-1868), early 19th century
The seated boy wearing the head portion of a costume worn for the shishimai lion dance, holding the mask up with one hand and grasping a drumstick in the other while clasping a small drum with his feet, the boy's eyes, eyebrows, and nose visible inside the mouth of the mask, the eyes inlaid in translucent horn, the pegs of the drum inlaid in horn, signed Hachijū-ichi Ō Tadamitsu (Old man of 81, Tadamitsu)
1 3/8in (3.5cm) high