Tenaga and Ashinaga

Netsuke depicting a "long arm," Tenaga, on the shoulders of a painfully looking "long-leg," Ashinaga, who has been seized by an octopus while fishing. The Tenaga, meanwhile, is trying to free his comrade's leg from this animal.________________________________________________________________________: Ashinaga and Tenaga Most netsuke are rather compact carvings, and for obvious reasons: protruding p…