A Shibayama-style ivory okimono inlaid in mother-of-pearl, stained ivory, coral, horn, soapstone and goldstone depicting the story of Bunbuku chagama, with three figures chasing the long tailed badger in his tea kettle as he tries to clamber through a screen, one figure holding a broom, with baskets and a box on the oval footed base (small piece of broom re-stuck, minor pieces of inlay missing) -- 5in.wide, signed Minetani on a silver tablet.