Happy fox on catching fish is dancing for joy.

A great number of old Japanese netsuke of "dancing foxes" served as the prototypes. But since the fox is happy and dancing I would like to give it a good reason – caught fish. The butterfly adds to the fox a kind of femininity and playfulness.

The netsuke is carved of walrus tusk. The butterfly is inlaid with color petrified mammoth tusk that has the insertions of jet and of mother-of-pearl.