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Decorated in gold, silver and red hiramaki-e, takamaki-e, kirikane, uchikomi, keuchi, mura-nashiji and silver foil on a black ground with kimpun, depicting a continuous mountain landscape with a waterfall cascading from towering rocks surrounded by pine and an autumn maple tree, the verso with a temple by a lake with overhanging pine trees, a boat drifting on the water, nashiji interiors and risers, fundame rims
8.3 cm. (314 in.) high
Literature
Eskenazi Ltd., Japanese Inro and Lacquer-ware from a Private Swedish Collection, (London, 1996), no. 47, p. 48-49.
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For another example of a similar subject on an inro by the Kajikawa School in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accession no. 11.9931, go to:
https://collections.mfa.org/objects/10808/sevencase-inro-with-autumn-landscape-design-maples-waterf

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