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Grace Tsumugi Fine Art, Japanese Works A BLACK-LACQUER INRO TWO INRO OF LACQUER AND IVORY
of Art, exhibition catalogue, London, INCORPORATING A SUZURIBAKO Edo period (1615-1868),
30 October-8 November 2014, cat. no.27, (BOX FOR WRITING UTENSILS) 18th and late 19th century
signed Koma Kyuhaku saku 古満休伯作. Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century The first of four cases, lacquered on one side
At the battle of Ichinotani (1184), Minamoto In the form of a kinchaku (purse), the roiro with fans resting on the verandah of a house
no Yoshitsune, mounted on his beloved black ground lacquered in gold and slight coloured with prunus trees in the garden beyond, and on
steed Tayuguro, led 3,000 troops over the takamaki-e with butterflies flitting among the reverse with poem slips beside an elaborate
Hiyodori Pass to launch a surprise attack peonies growing by rocks, the interior of tokonoma alcove, details inlaid in shell,
on the opposing Taira forces. Yoshitsune’s red lacquer, fitted with a suzuri (ink-grinding unsigned, with a carnelian ojime and lacquer
charge is often depicted in nineteenth-century stone) and a bamboo-handled fude (brush); manju netsuke of chrysanthemum form, the
woodblock prints by Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi and unsigned. 10.5cm (4 1/8in) high. (4). inro 7.8cm (3 1/8in) high; the second of ivory,
his pupils, but the signature on the present inlaid in Shibayama style with pheasants and
inro refers to the famous painter Hanabusa £1,000 - 1,500 a mounted feather among plum blossoms,
Itcho (1652-1724). JPY150,000 - 220,000 signed illegibly, with an ojime and netsuke en
US$1,300 - 2,000 suite, the inro 8.9cm (3½in) high. (2).

£1,000 - 1,500
JPY150,000 - 220,000
US$1,300 - 2,000

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please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.