Ivory Okimono depicting a peasant, Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) He is seated on a stump, wearing a woven straw jingasa, near a river holding a whistle. He holds a bamboo in the other hand. Signed below in a mother-of-pearl cartouche Bizan - 美山. 8.5 x 9.5 cm; weight: 99 g Missing bamboo.