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A FINE LACQUER BUNKO [BOX FOR PAPERS]
Jinyu Yokogoshi, (b.1890-?)
The exterior of the box and cover decorated with beans and lotus leaves in gold and takamaki-e over a polished black lacquer ground, the interior of the box and cover and the riser with flowering gourd vines in silver, green and gold takamaki-e over a bright red ground, the rims of the box and cover in silver and the base of the box in nashiji, signed on the base in gold lacuqer Jinyu saku
13.5 x 35.2 x 43.4cm.

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With a letter from the Ministry of Commerce dated 1939 refering to payment of a fee to Jinyu Yokogoshi for exhibiting a work in 1939 World Fairs at San Francisco and New York.

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