VILLAGE

On the front side there are a house, a bridge, a fisherman with an oar and a basket with a fish and a tree, on the reverse side there are a barn with two birds stealing seeds, a gate with fragment of fence and a tree. They are traditional Japanese objects, have been carved from ivory mammoth tusk, 2 inches across and ½ inch thick. The loop for the cord was done opposite himotoshi. 2007 UK, private collection.