Okimono or small sculpture in the form of an ebi or rock lobster, of hand sculpted and glazed porcelain. Signed on the reverse with a seal form stamp by the artist: Makuzu (Makuzu Kozan II, the go or art name of Miyagawa Hanzan or Miyagawa Hannosuke, 1859 – 1940). Showa era, 1937.

An identical (if not the same) ebi okimono by Kozan II was exhibited at the Shinbunten in 1937, and is illustrated in the Nittenshi, volume 13, page 228, number 139. The elaborate signature on the box also suggests that this is the same piece exhibited in 1937, when Miyagawa Hanzan was eighty by the Japanese count.

With the tomobako or original box, inscribed on the exterior of the lid: Okimono or Sculpture; and on the reverse of the lid: Ebi or Lobster, and signed: Hachijusai Okina Makuzu Kozan Saku or Made by Old Master Makuzu Kozan At the Age of Eighty Years, and sealed: Makuzu Kozan. Superbly modeled and glazed.