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A black lacquer ground lacquer rectangular box
and cover, decorated in gold and coloured togidashi-e with a scene from the No play Aridoshi: the poet Ki no Tsurayuki (9th-10th Century) with an unbrella standing in driving rain before the torii (archway) of a Shinto shrine, reciting a poem to pacify the anger of the god Aridoshi Myojin, the interior with maple leaves on a swirling stream in gold and silver hiramaki-e on a nashiji ground, silver chrysanthemum-head ring-handles -- 8.7/8in. (22.5cm) long, late 19th Century, signed Tatsuki Kokosai, (very minor wear to rims).
See Colour Plate 4.
For an inro with the same design, signed Koma Kansai, see Julia Hutt, Japanese Inro (in the Victoria and Albert Museum) (London, 1997), front cover (inv. no. W.254-1921)
and cover, decorated in gold and coloured togidashi-e with a scene from the No play Aridoshi: the poet Ki no Tsurayuki (9th-10th Century) with an unbrella standing in driving rain before the torii (archway) of a Shinto shrine, reciting a poem to pacify the anger of the god Aridoshi Myojin, the interior with maple leaves on a swirling stream in gold and silver hiramaki-e on a nashiji ground, silver chrysanthemum-head ring-handles -- 8.7/8in. (22.5cm) long, late 19th Century, signed Tatsuki Kokosai, (very minor wear to rims).
See Colour Plate 4.
For an inro with the same design, signed Koma Kansai, see Julia Hutt, Japanese Inro (in the Victoria and Albert Museum) (London, 1997), front cover (inv. no. W.254-1921)
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