EDO PERIOD (19TH CENTURY)

Details

TWO INRO
Edo Period (19th Century)
A three-case inro, plain wood ground; decoration in enamelled pottery; compartments, risers, shoulders and rims plain wood

Two dancing courtiers and on the reverse a partial view of daidaiko drums

And a four-case inro, black lacquer ground; decoration in gold, silver and coloured hiramaki-e and takamaki-e; compartments and risers gold nashiji; shoulders and rims gold lacquer; signed in gold hiramaki-e underneath Kajikawa saku [made by Kajikawa] with a red lacquer pot-seal Ei

A group of Chinese adults and children fishing from a boat; Ebisu, one of the Shichifukujin [Seven Gods of Good Fortune] in the cabin with a Japanese courtier
27/8in. (7.2cm.) and 2¾in. (7cm.) long respectively (2)

Provenance

The second, J. C. Hawkshaw Collection

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Lot Essay

The dancers are based on an illustration to Chapter 7, Momiji no ga [Autumn Celebration], of the great 11th-century novel Genji monogatari [The Tale of Genji]; one of the figures is Prince Genji himself. Rissai, an imitator of Ogawa Haritsu was active in the mid-19th century; see E.A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists (Harehope, Northumberland, 1995), p. 211.

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