A Japanese five-case sleeve inro decorated on each side in hiramakie and togidashi with a shaped cartouche of storks standing on a river bank beside grasses on a gilt togidashi ground simulating wood, the sleeve decorated in hiramakie and takamakie with fruiting vines, the interior of nashiji (old damage and wear, base missing) -- 3½in.long.

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A Japanese five-case sleeve inro decorated on each side in hiramakie and togidashi with a shaped cartouche of storks standing on a river bank beside grasses on a gilt togidashi ground simulating wood, the sleeve decorated in hiramakie and takamakie with fruiting vines, the interior of nashiji (old damage and wear, base missing) -- 3½in.long.
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