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A FOUR CASE IVORY INRO
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
Of flattened oval section carved in sunken relief with a legendary figure on a cliff flinging a poem slip into the wind, the opposite side carved with Raijin appearing in the thunderclouds beating his drum, fitted with a large ivory bead ojime and fan-shaped ivory netsuKe inscribed with chrysanthemums and a poem, signed chikumin- 3 3/8 in. (8.7 cm.) high
EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)
Of flattened oval section carved in sunken relief with a legendary figure on a cliff flinging a poem slip into the wind, the opposite side carved with Raijin appearing in the thunderclouds beating his drum, fitted with a large ivory bead ojime and fan-shaped ivory netsuKe inscribed with chrysanthemums and a poem, signed chikumin- 3 3/8 in. (8.7 cm.) high