A FIVE-CASE INRO

SIGNED KAKOSAI SHOZAN (EDO), EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Details

A FIVE-CASE INRO
Signed Kakosai Shozan (Edo), Edo Period (19th Century)
With gold kinji ground; decoration in gold, black and red takamaki-e with details in gold foil mosaic; compartments and risers coarse gold nashiji; rims gold lacquer; signed on the base in gold hiramaki-e Kakosai Shozan with a pot seal

A landscape with waterfalls, pine trees and cherry blossom through which two mounted samurai ride, one of them preparing to shoot an arrow and the other (on the reverse) turning to call to him
3in. (9.5cm.) long

Provenance

Edde Collection

Lot Essay

The two warriors are Kajiwara Kagesue (1162-1200) and Sasaki Takatsuna (d. 1214), depicted during their celebrated race to a ford across the Uji river during a campaign to suppress a revolt by Kiso Yoshinaka. The great hero Minamoto Yoshitsune had lent his horse named Surusumi to Kagesue, but Takatsuna tricked Kagesue into stopping by shouting to him that his saddle-girth had come loose.

More from Netsuke & Lacquer from the Japanese Department of Eskenazi

View All