A black and gold lacquer five-case inro decorated in hiramakie, togidashi, scattered nashiji and kirigane with thatched huts among rockwork before a prunus tree, the reverse with fishing nets on a river bank all on a nashiji ground, the interior in nashiji (slightly rubbed, minute chips and crack) -- 3¼in. high.

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A black and gold lacquer five-case inro decorated in hiramakie, togidashi, scattered nashiji and kirigane with thatched huts among rockwork before a prunus tree, the reverse with fishing nets on a river bank all on a nashiji ground, the interior in nashiji (slightly rubbed, minute chips and crack) -- 3¼in. high.
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