JAPANESE AND KOREAN ART 23 march 2022

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KAJIKAWA BUNRYUSAI LINEAGE
A black lacquer four-case inro
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
Of rounded rectangular profile with applied cordrunners,
decorated in gold, silver, and colored
takamaki-e with rats clambering over scattered
fusuma and shoji sliding screens, signed
Kajikawa Bunryusai with a red kao (cursive
monogram); coral bead ojime
3 1/4in (8.2cm) high
$3,500 - 4,500
Provenance
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, May 2013
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688
KOAMI LINEAGE
A black lacquer four-case inro
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
Of rounded rectangular profile with applied
cord-runners, decorated in gold and colored
takamaki-e against a rich roiro black lacquer
ground and decorated with Okame peering
out from a circular window, one hand held
to her face, looking at two oni fleeing from
beans thrown at them in the mamemaki
(bean scattering) ritual on the day before the
beginning of spring, the interior gold nashiji,
signed Koami with a kao (cursive monogram);
ojime glass, with wood storage box
3 3/8in (8.5cm) high
$3,000 - 5,000
Provenance
Bonhams, London, May 11, 2010, lot 251
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