A brown wood Netsuke of a tengu with monkey

Description:

Japan, signed Masakazu, 19th cent.
B. 3,3 cm
Finely carved netsuke of a tengu hatching from its egg next to a monkey. Signed on the bottom.
From an old private collection Rhineland, collected before 1985, coll. no. 54 (with note 8/(19)75 Giessel Bayreuth) - Minimal traces of wear