A boxwood okimono, 18th century. Edo period, a rare and very well carved figure of an Oni standing holding a basket and a gourd. He has a muscular body and a fierce expression and is dressed in his traditional tiger skin pants, inlaid tortoiseshell eyes, signed on the basket Sanko?. See Lazarnick. Netsuke and Inro artists. P.912. Height 14 cm