A MASSIVE FINE SHIBAYAMA STYLE KODANSU, the silver ground carved in relief with massed chrysanthemum flowerheads, the top decorated with a kinji ground fan-shaped panel with a pair of doves on a cherry branch and an ivory gourd-shaped panel with carp among iris and wisteria, each side with three shaped panels with a kingfisher among flowers, a flower basket, a cockerel, a hen and a chick, peonies, a pheasant on a cherry branch, the back with a flowehead-shaped kinji ground panel with onagadori and an ivory roundel with a heron on a willow, the door similarly decoratead with a tasseled hawk on a perch and quails among chrysanthemums, opening to reveal three drawers decorataed in gold and iroe togidashi with a multitude of flowerheads and foliage, the inside of the drawers in nashiji, engraved silver handles and a knob (minor restorations), signed on the nashiji ground base Masayoshi, late 19th Century