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1055
A THREE-CASE WOOD INRO
After Issan, Edo period (1615-1868), 19th
century
Carved to resemble a tortoise, the legs
tucked close to its body and the head
peeking out slightly, the detail highlighted
with dark stain, inscribed on the underside
Issan with a fruit-nut netsuke
3 1/2in (8.8cm) high

US$1,500 - 2,500
1056
KAJIKAWA BUNRYUSAI II (ACTIVE 19TH
CENTURY)
A four-case lobed lacquer inro
Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-
1912), 19th century
Decorated in gold hiramaki-e, togidashi,
hirame, and kirikane against a roiro-nuri
ground with stylized blossoms and clouds,
the interior cases nashiji, signed Bunryusai
and sealed Utsusu; fitted with a gold-lacquer
bead ojime decorated with paulownia leaves
1055 1056 in gold and silver hiramaki-e
3 1/4in (8.3cm) high

US$1,500 - 2,500
1057
A FOUR-CASE LACQUER INRO AND A
FIVE-CASE LACQUER INRO
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
The first bearing a kinji ground and decorated
in iro-e takamaki-e with a traveler, his
attendant, and a young woman with a
battledore before a young pine, nashiji
interiors, inscribed Hanabusa Itcho ga
(after a painting by Hanabusa Itcho); fitted
with a bone ojime carved with an elephant
and a foreign figure; the second decorated
in gold hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with
embellishments of kirikane and hirame
against a roiro-nuri ground with blossoming
prunus and brush fence, interiors nashiji;
fitted with a glass bead ojime
3 1/4in (8.3cm) high, the largest

US$1,500 - 2,500

1057

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