Netsukes. 



[ 23.] Group of six figures, seated and standing. 

 Marked. 



[ 24,] Man, woman, and ape. Marked. 

 [25.] Figure of a deity, with two pigmy men. Marked. 

 [ 26.] Group of seven monkeys, two holding pole on 

 which one swings. 



[ 27.] Five blind men quarrelling Marked. 

 [ 28.] Group of five figures — one carr>'ing a hawk, one 

 with a bear. Marked. 



[ 29.] Group of nine grotesque masks. Marked. 

 [ 30.] Group of two men and a boy. Marked. 

 [31.] Mythological group — three men with horse and 

 frog, and a lizard coming out of an egg. 



[32.] Group of five musicians, three with instruments. 

 Marked. 



[33.] Grove of bamboo; three figures and deer 

 beneath. 



[ 34.] Seven grotesque masks ; grouped. 

 [ 35.] Four figures — three issuing from a box, one of 

 them with a serpent's neck. 



[ 36.] A Japanese woman pouring out tea for a man in 

 European dress. Marked. 



[ 37-] Woman washing clothes. Marked. 

 [ 38.] Old man, with mask and a child. 

 [ 39.] Man carving a grotesque mask, with chisel and 

 hammer; another man looking on with admiration. Marked. 

 [ 40.] Bald-headed personage, with large ears, carrying 

 a MS. roll ; a man following. Marked. 



[41.] Two figures discoursing about a grotesque head 

 between them. Marked. 



[42.] Two figures at a table playing with dice. 

 Marked. 



[ 43.] A countryman tying together with cord the four 

 legs of a wolf ; a man looking on. Marked. 



[ 44.] Two mythological figures, with serpent. 



[ 45.] Two frog-faced and frog-shaped men, one carry- 

 ing the other. 



[ 46.] Mythological personage, with large bald head 

 and white beard, and attendant carrying scrolls. 



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