A Komai iron octagonal box and cover decorated in gilt nunomezogan with buildings and a pagoda on a riverbank before Mount Fuji, the sides decorated with butterflies -- 2¼.in.wide, signed Komai; a gilt-copper rectangular box and cover decorated with shaped panels of calligraphy, the sides with stylised waves -- 2.in.long; a small flaring bronze vase with simulated bamboo handles decorated with a minogame before buildings -- 4½.in.high; and an ivory cylindrical spill vase incised with a butterfly in flight beside bamboo and a raddish -- 3½.in.high.

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A Komai iron octagonal box and cover decorated in gilt nunomezogan with buildings and a pagoda on a riverbank before Mount Fuji, the sides decorated with butterflies -- 2¼.in.wide, signed Komai; a gilt-copper rectangular box and cover decorated with shaped panels of calligraphy, the sides with stylised waves -- 2.in.long; a small flaring bronze vase with simulated bamboo handles decorated with a minogame before buildings -- 4½.in.high; and an ivory cylindrical spill vase incised with a butterfly in flight beside bamboo and a raddish -- 3½.in.high.
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