A kinji ground rectangular panel decorated in hiramakie, takamakie, nashiji and hirame, and inlaid in ivory, mother-of-pearl, horn, soapstone and other hardstones with figures in a punt approaching the riverbank with a shrine entrance among trees, two ducks swimming beside the boat, set within a nashiji ground frame with applied shakudo mounts modelled as ho-o, insects and mythical animals among folige (small pieces of inlay missing, areas of dames to frame) --25.X.18¾.in.overall.

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A kinji ground rectangular panel decorated in hiramakie, takamakie, nashiji and hirame, and inlaid in ivory, mother-of-pearl, horn, soapstone and other hardstones with figures in a punt approaching the riverbank with a shrine entrance among trees, two ducks swimming beside the boat, set within a nashiji ground frame with applied shakudo mounts modelled as ho-o, insects and mythical animals among folige (small pieces of inlay missing, areas of dames to frame) --25.X.18¾.in.overall.
See Colour Plate 10.

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