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23. Menuki in the form of Idaten pursuing Sokushiki, who has stolen some Buddhist relics.
24. Menuki; one representing Watanabe no Tsuna in full armour, drawing his sword as the demon seizes his helmet; the other, a battle-steed without a saddle.
25. Kōgai, by Yūjō, on which is chiselled a night view of the celebrated landscape Shōjō in wet weather. Two figures are seen, both wearing straw rain-coats. The foremost, a young man, carries a torch; the other, an old man, follows. A splendid work.
26. Menuki, one representing the fabulous Nuye (a monster with the head of a monkey, the body of a tiger, and the tail of a serpent); the other, Yorimasa, with bow and arrow.
27. Menuki, by Yūjō; the Sambaso—a dancing figure in high relief; the design on the surcoat, sprays of Paulownai in relief to represent embroidery; the pattern on the skirt, pines and cranes, inlaid to represent dying. A very fine work.
28. Kōgai, having the koshin design (the three sacred monkeys). Yujo's second-class work.
29. A kōgai; the design, three silver trout strung on a spray of willow.
30. Menuki, a spider catching a bee.
31. Kozuka, the genji-guruma: a cart drawn by an ox and laden with a basket of convolvulus flowers.
32. Kozuka, a fisherman drawing up the image of Yakushi in his net.
33. Menuki, by Yūjō; the story of Anchin and Kiyohime, represented by a bronze bell with a gold dragon coiled round it. A splendid work.
Many other specimens are mentioned,—the Dragon King riding on a carp; a tenniu reading a sutra; fishing with cormorants at Nagara; Asaina and the demon trying their strength; fishing by flash-light; a child catching a crab; Fukurokuju feeding his crane; Kengiu and Shokujo; Choryo and Sekiko; Nō dancers; long-armed apes clutching at the moon's reflection; lobsters; insects of various kinds; a rat
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