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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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