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AFTER HARA YOYUSAI
A Gold-Lacquer Four-Case Inro
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
The upright rectangular body with a kinji ground
decorated in gold, black, and silver takamaki-e with
two Noh actors, each with a Heian period hair style
and wearing an eboshi hat and mask with a sword
tucked into their waist band, one in the role of a
Shirabyoshi dancer posturing and holding a closed
fan, the other carrying a Shinto wand attached with
paper streamers strapped to his back, the interior of
rich nashiji, inscribed in gold lacquer Hara Yoyusai
saku; with a glass ojime. 9cm (3½in) high.
£2,500 - 3,500
JPY490,000 - 680,000
US$3,300 - 4,600
Provenance:
47 Maurice Champoud Collection.
Purchased from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts.
Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
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SOMADA SCHOOL
An Inlaid Black-Lacquer Four-Case Inro
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
The rounded rectangular body finely executed in
minute shell inlay, and gold and silver hiramaki-e with
a continuous scene depicting a family of chickens
foraging for food beside a cherry tree, the cockerel
on one side, the hen and chicks on the other, the
top and bottom surfaces embellished with stylised
roundels of birds, the interior of rich nashiji, unsigned;
with a two-part octagonal netsuke decorated with
varying geometric patterns including hanabishi mon
(flowery diamond) and shippo-tsunagi (linked-cash)
and chequer designs picked out in gold and shell
inlay on a roiro-nuri ground, the underside of rich
nashiji; unsigned. 8.6cm (3 3/8in) high.
£3,500 - 5,500
JPY680,000 - 1,100,000
US$4,600 - 7,200
Provenance:
Maurice Champoud Collection.
Purchased from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts.
48 Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
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SHOKASAI (ACTIVE 19TH CENTURY)
A Gold-Lacquer Four-Case Inro
Edo period (1615-1868)
or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th century
The rounded rectangular body with a black-lacquer
ground decorated in gold and red takamaki-e and
mura-nashiji with a hiyodori (rock thrush) perched
on nanten (nandina) branches, the trailing branches
continuing on the reverse, the interior of rich nashiji;
signed Shokasai. 9cm (3 9/16in) high.
£3,000 - 4,000
JPY580,000 - 780,000
US$3,900 - 5,200
Provenance:
Maurice Champoud Collection.
Purchased from the Idemitsu Museum of Arts.
Kiyomizu Sannenzaka Museum.
Published and Illustrated:
Trudel Klefisch, The Champoud Collection Inro,
Kyoto, Kyoto Shoin Co., Ltd., 1984, p.10, pl.12.
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