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I don't quite get it, but it's a repeated theme in netsuke. The drum-like thing is called a mokugyo, and it is used to keep rhythm during buddhist chants. I think most Japanese people will associate this with funeral chants. My very obvious guess is that the theme is a meditation on the brevity of life and funeral drum being always an unpredictably short way away. 

 

 

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