A bamboo carving of Liuhai Qing Dynasty, Kangxi period

the Daoist immortal Liuhai portrayed with gleeful smirking expression clambering atop a rocky outcrop, with a fishing line in his right hand, the line extending down the jagged cliff face scattered with paulownia trees, the end grasped in the mouth of a three-legged toad jumping form the fast flowing stream at the base, the wood of a soft brown tone