A LARGE GYOBU GROUND THREE-CASE INRO with a silver-rimmed oval kinji panel on each side decorated in Shibayama inlay with skeletons, frogs, a demon and a grasshopper in a wild dance, on the reverse two sparrows in flight above chrysanthemums growing on a bamboo trellis beside a stream (inlay missing and repaired), nashji interior, unsigned, 19th century, 11.4cm., with a red lacquer ojime and a wood netsuke carved as Kan'U on horseback, an attendant holding his halberd (3)