FOUR-CASE INRO, SIGNED KOMA KANSAI, RED POT SEAL, MEIJI PERIOD, 19TH CENTURY decorated in iroe-hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, nashiji and hirame with a traveller being attacked by a large eel

FOUR CASE GOLD LACQUER INRO BY UNRYUAN With nashiji interiors, decorated with a Samurai's retainer training a rearing horse

late 19th/early 20th century. with an old woman carrying her grandson on her back in front of a large statue of Enma-o, the reverse similarly inlaid with a mother showing her child

Late seventeenth century

GOLD LACQUER TWO-CASE INRO By Kanshosai Toyo, 19th century Of wide form, bearing a yasuriko ground and lacquered with a large ebi (crayfish), koi (carp), fugu (puffer fish), hirame (sole) and shellfish among waterweed

SIGNED KOMA KYUHAKU SAKU, EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

By Koma Kyuhaku, early 19th century The roiro ground, shading to usu-nashiji, lacquered with two oshidori (mandarin ducks) swimming past reeds on the banks of a stream, continued on the reverse.

00 Japan, 19. Century. Five-part. Gold and silver hira and takamaki e over roiro ground. Mist-covered hilly landscape with pavilions and waters

Meiji period (late 19th century), sealed Ryoun (Unno Moritoshi). Decorated in high relief, mixed-metal inlay, with two scenes of festival dancers and musicians

By Koma Yasutada, Edo period (1615-1868), mid-19th century The vertical rectangular body embellished red, gold and silver takamaki-e with two pheasants perched together on a flowering plum branch which continues on the reverse.

A GOLD-LACQUER FIVE-CASE INRO Kajikawa lineage, Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th century

By Shokasai, 19th century. lacquered with cranes flying over turbulent water in gold takamakie and hiramakie, the setting sun shown in red lacquer on one side.

By Gyokusai, 19th century Of oval section and designed with a a large coiling snake among autumn grasses, the reverse with several birds fleeing from the predator

FIVE CASE INRO, with nashiji interiors; decorated on the roiro-nuri ground in various maki-e techniques with a bold design of a dragon; signed in the top case Kajikawa

Edo period (17th century) Decorated in varicolored gold hiramaki-e, takamaki-e and kirikane with a dragon-fish in inlaid shakudo above cresting waves

A GOLD LACQUER FIVE-CASE INRO ENSEMBLE WITH EBI AND VARIOUS DELICACIES. By Shohosai 松甫斎. early 19th century, Edo period.

By Shokasai, late 19th century Decorated on the oval kinji ground in gold, silver and slight-coloured takamakie with five cavorting horses, two on one side and three on the other