A very fine togidashi three-case inrō. Early 20th century

A very fine togidashi three-case inrō. Early 20th century Signed Kajikawa saku 梶川作 with red lacquer pot seal Ei/Hide 英 Of wide shape bearing a kinji ground, decorated with the Kiso river and mountains in snow and inscribed Hiroshige hitsu, lacquered in shades of silver, gold and black togidashi. On the bottom inscribed Kōka ni nen kinoto-mi haru / Kiso sekkei zu Ichiryūsai Hiroshige ga 弘化二年乙巳 / 春木曽雪景圖一立斎廣重画 (Kōka 2 [1854] kinoto-mi in the spring Kiso snowscape by Ichiryūsai Hiroshige). Nashiji and fundame to the inside. Along with a gold lacquer ojime and a kagamibuta, the disc of shibuichi, engraved with the bust portrait of a courtesan, inscribed Toyokuni hitsu, signed Shōmin (Unno Shōmin, 1844—1915), and a negoro-lacquered wood bowl, diameter 3.8 cm, 19th century. Height 7.7 cm; width 7.9 cm

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