UNSIGNED, EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY/19TH CENTURY)

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THREE INRO
Unsigned, Edo period (18th century/19th century)
A three-case inro, red lacquer ground; decoration in gold and coloured hiramaki-e with flakes of gold; compartments and risers gold nashiji (one inscribed with the name of a medicine); shoulders and rims gold lacquer

A Chinese fisherman sitting on a platform above a stream fishing, a bottle-gourd hanging in his shelter; on the reverse his boat with a basket for his catch

A four-case inro, black lacquer ground; decoration in gold, black and coloured hiramaki-e and gold foil; compartments and risers black lacquer; shoulders and rims gold lacquer

Four poem cards bearing portraits of four of the poets from the Hyakunin isshu anthology with their poems, and other poems inscribed on long strips of paper

And a three-case inro, Gold lacquer ground; decoration in gold and black hiramaki-e; compartments, rims and risers with gold flakes on a black lacquer ground; shoulders gold lacquer

A collection of clam-shells in a straw parcel which has partially broken; on the reverse a camellia plant
3in. (7.6cm.), 23/8in. (6.1cm.) and 2½in. (6.4cm.) long respectively (3)

Provenance

The third, J. C. Hawkshaw Collection

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Lot Essay

Compiled in 1235 by Fujiwara Teika (1162-1241), the Hyakunin isshu [One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets] includes some of the best-known poems in the Japanese language. It was immensely popular during the Edo period, when the poems formed the basis of shell-matching- and card-games.

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