A FOUR-CASE INRO decorated in gold and silver hiramakie, takamakie and hirame on a red lacquer ground, and inlaid in mother-of-pearl, with a continuous scene of sparrows playing in flight, while one alights on a beam supporting a snow-covered thatched roof, partially obscured by a spring of peony blossoms, nashiji interior (minute old damage), signed Jokasai, with attached ojime and okimono-style Kamakura-bori wood netsuke of a sennin, 19th century