A pale shibuichi kozuka
Mito School, 19th century
Inlaid with a girl seated on a mokugyo, reading a book and holding a sceptre, beneath an inlaid poem, a skull and gravestone carved and inlaid on the reverse beneath a poem, signed Motoharu with kao.
Sold for £840 (€993) inc. premium
Footnotes
小柄　女と木魚　銘「元春（花押）」　19世紀

Provenance: purchased at Sothebys London, 1965.

The maker is possibly Taizan Motozane, founder of the Taizan Sekijoken family school, who used several art names, including Motoharu: see Haynes, Index, no.H 06004.