A four-case gold lacquer inro decorated in hiramakie, takamakie and scattered hirame on the fundame ground with an ivory karashishi leaping in a rocky garden landscape before pine cones and below clouds, the reverse with a waterfall before a pine tree and rockwork (minute chip) -- 3¼in.high, signed Shokasai.

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A four-case gold lacquer inro decorated in hiramakie, takamakie and scattered hirame on the fundame ground with an ivory karashishi leaping in a rocky garden landscape before pine cones and below clouds, the reverse with a waterfall before a pine tree and rockwork (minute chip) -- 3¼in.high, signed Shokasai.
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