Large fishing bear by Yuki Miura

Large fishing bear carved from solid Hokkaido wood. It's a magnificent decorative object that also evokes fairy tales, a shamanic and imaginary world... It represents a standing bear, carrying the fish it has just caught with a harpoon. The base is also gouged and signed Yuki Miura, with an engraving of a lily of the valley flower.
The Hokkaido black bear is a sacred animal for the Ainu, the aboriginal people of northern Japan living on the island of the same name, and they have a tradition of carving it. The magnificent wood bears the marks of the gouge strokes and the hand of the man who created this beautiful portrait, and here it is fire-blackened to evoke the coat. It's a real sculpture.

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