A smoker's set comprising a wood kiseruzutsu carved with a spider dangling from a flowering magnolia branch containing a metal pipe -- 7¾in.long, signed Harumitsu (Shunko), a bronze ojime modelled as a whicker basket containing fruit, and a wood tobacco box and cover onlaid in wood and ivory with sprays of finger citrus, a kettle, a bowl and a whicker basket -- 3¼in.wide, signed on rectangular tablet; a wood tobacco pouch modelled as a leather satchell -- 3¾in.wide, lacquered wood ojime carved as a seated monkey, and a boxwood and ivory netsuke of a masked dancer holding a fan -- 1¾in.high; another wood tobacco pouch carved as a pouch with a kagamibuta netsuke attached decorated with a waggon wheel with leaves and gourds -- 1¾in.diam.

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A smoker's set comprising a wood kiseruzutsu carved with a spider dangling from a flowering magnolia branch containing a metal pipe -- 7¾in.long, signed Harumitsu (Shunko), a bronze ojime modelled as a whicker basket containing fruit, and a wood tobacco box and cover onlaid in wood and ivory with sprays of finger citrus, a kettle, a bowl and a whicker basket -- 3¼in.wide, signed on rectangular tablet; a wood tobacco pouch modelled as a leather satchell -- 3¾in.wide, lacquered wood ojime carved as a seated monkey, and a boxwood and ivory netsuke of a masked dancer holding a fan -- 1¾in.high; another wood tobacco pouch carved as a pouch with a kagamibuta netsuke attached decorated with a waggon wheel with leaves and gourds -- 1¾in.diam.
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