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Netsuke: katabori: Rat catcher. Masakazu, Edo Period, 19th century, Japan. Figure of an angry rat catcher half-nude crouching over a grain-measure holding a large club in his right hand and looking at the rat escaping over his left shoulder. The rat with finely incised details and black eyes, the man with a shaven head and his hair scraped into a bun; his tongue and eyes are tinted red. Himotoshi through the back of the grain-measure. Ivory, finely carved, incised and stained, height, whole, 2.6 cm, width, whole, 3.7 cm, circa 1800-1868. Edo Period (1615-1868).
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