Stag antler 146 x 19 x 24 mm, from Asakusa, Tôkyô, approx. 1870.

Tenaga ("longarms"), with an old man's strenuous face, crouches with knees drawn up to his chin. His grotesquely elongated arms grasp an octopus. He has put his fingers round the tentacles and is pulling the evidently unpleased octopus out of the water. The two figures are looking roguishly at each other. Here for once tenaga has managed to neutralise the octopus, who is a constant nuisance to his friend ashinaga ("longlegs").

Obihasami were pushed under the sash (obi) to clasp it. When this particular obihasami is fitted to a sash, the head and legs of the tenaga show at the top of the obi and the octopus he is clutching peeps out from below.

DM 4800, auction at Cologne 1963