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first month, a pair of tachibina (standing dolls)
           for Jomi no sekku on the third day of the third
           month, a carp streamer and a banner depicting
           Shoki the Demon-Queller for Tango no sekku
           on the fifth day of the fifth month, tanzaku
           (poem slips) resting beside a ink-grinding stone
           and writing brushes on a bundai (writing table)
           overlooking a garden representing Tanabata
           no sekku (the Star Festival) on the seventh day
           of the seventh month, and chrysanthemums
           for Kiku no sekku on the ninth day of the ninth
           month, signed Nikkosai; with a red glass ojime.
           8.1cm (3 3/16in) high.
           £1,800 - 2,500
           JPY350,000 - 490,000
           US$2,400 - 3,300
           Provenance:
           Purchased at Sotheby’s, London,
           29 March 1995, lot 142.
           An English private collection.
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           A GOLD-LACQUER SEVEN-CASE INRO
           Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era
           (1868-1912), mid/late 19th century
           The vertical rectangular rounded kinji body
           decorated in gold and slight-coloured
           takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, and kirikane with an
           elegantly-clad woman standing on an engawa,
           adjusting a sudare (bamboo blind), the reverse
           similarly lacquered with a tenugui (hand towel)
           draped over a branch beside a chozubachi
           (water bowl), a hishaku (water ladle) resting on its
           edge, framed by shochikubai (pine, bamboo and
           plum ‘The Three Friends of Winter’), the interior
           of Gyobu nashiji, unsigned; with a two-part gold-
           lacquer manju netsuke embellished with a single
           blooming peony, unsigned; and a green glass
           ojime. 8.9cm (3½in) high.                 39
           £3,000 - 4,000
           JPY580,000 - 780,000
           US$3,900 - 5,200
           Provenance:
           Shozo Sugihara Collection, purchased in these
           rooms, 10 November 2016, lot 149.
           An English private collection.
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           NAKAYAMA KOMIN (1808-1870)
           A Black-Lacquer Four-Case Inro
           Edo period (1615-1868)
           or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th century
           The rounded rectangular body decorated in gold
           and silver togidashi maki-e with two peasants
           on one side, one carrying a basket on her head
           filled with stands of bamboo, her companion
           leading a mule, a reference to Taketori
           monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter), the
           bamboo grove in the distance continuing to the
           other side, the interior of rich nashiji, signed on
           the base in gold lacquer Nakayama Komin saku;
           with a glass bead ojime. 8.7cm (3 3/8in) high.
           £4,000 - 5,000
           JPY780,000 - 970,000
           US$5,200 - 6,500
           Provenance:
           Purchased at Sotheby’s, London,          40
           15 November 2001, lot 229.
           An English private collection.


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