A FOUR-CASE INRO depicting horses gambolling in a meadow among pine saplings, in hiramakie on a kinpun and togidashi ground, the interior in nashiji, signed Yamada Toyoyoshi saku, 18th century, 8.2cm., with an ivory and gilt wire ojime; and a three-case roironuri inro decorated in gold hiramakie with a large bundle of noshi and stylised tama, the interior nashiji , unsigned, early 19th century, 7.1cm., with a painted glass and a stained ivory netsuke carved as a karashishi on a rocky outcrop, unsigned, 19th century (2)

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A FOUR-CASE INRO depicting horses gambolling in a meadow among pine saplings, in hiramakie on a kinpun and togidashi ground, the interior in nashiji, signed Yamada Toyoyoshi saku, 18th century, 8.2cm., with an ivory and gilt wire ojime; and a three-case roironuri inro decorated in gold hiramakie with a large bundle of noshi and stylised tama, the interior nashiji , unsigned, early 19th century, 7.1cm., with a painted glass and a stained ivory netsuke carved as a karashishi on a rocky outcrop, unsigned, 19th century (2)

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