Details
A ROGIN-NURI LACQUER FOUR-CASE INRO
JAPAN, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY), SIGNED HOSHIN (ISHIHARA HOSHIN)
The rounded rectangular body lacquered in gold, red and sumi-e togidashi maki-e with a continuous scene depicting the foxes' wedding procession rendered in silhouette on one side, and tall cryptomeria trees beyond a bold red torii at the entrance to a Shinto shrine on the other, the interior of rich nashiji, signed on the base in gold hiramaki-e Hoshin, with a two-part rogin-nuri manju-netsuke similarly embellished with two foxes holding lanterns at the front, guiding other foxes at the back carrying the fox bride inside a palanquin.
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Paul Corbin Collection.
J. M. Gueneau Collection.
Purchased at Hotel Drouot, Paris 1971.
Wrangham Collection, no.1131, with original collector's label.
Literature
INRO: An exhibition of Japanese Inro from the collection of E.A. Wrangham, exhibition catalogue, Oxford, 1972, p.30, cat. no. 48 (ill.)
E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, p.82, where the author connects Hoshin's work with the School of Shibata Zeshin.
Exhibited
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, INRO: An exhibition of Japanese Inro from the collection of E.A. Wrangham, 9 October - 4 November 1972.
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