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KAJIKAWA LINEAGE A Black- and Gold-Lacquer Four-Case Inrō (Medicine Case) Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century image 1
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KAJIKAWA LINEAGE
A Black- and Gold-Lacquer Four-Case Inrō (Medicine Case)
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century

14 December 2023, 17:00 EST
New York

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KAJIKAWA LINEAGE

A Black- and Gold-Lacquer Four-Case Inrō (Medicine Case)
Edo period (1615-1868), 19th century
Of rounded rectangular plan with applied himotōshi (cord runners), decorated in gold, silver, and colored hiramaki-e and takamaki-e with embellishments in okibirame gold-foil mosaic against a polished black roiro ground, depicting on one side travelers of various classes in a ferry boat poled from the shore by a boatman and on the other side a samurai and attendants running unsuccessfully to get on board, signed in gold hiramaki-e on the base Kajikawa saku (Made by Kajikawa) with a red seal Ei; with a silk cord
3 1/2in (8.9cm) high

Footnotes

The scene depicted here, sometimes known in Japanese as Noriaibune ("All in the Same Boat"), was first depicted by the painter Hanabusa Itchō (1652–1724). Itchō's disciples reproduced Noriaibune and several other of the master's designs in a woodblock-printed book that would become a rich source of motifs for lacquer decoration right through the Edo period and beyond.1

1. Miriam Wattles, The Life and Afterlives of Hanabusa Itchō, Artist-Rebel of Edo, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2013, p. 52; Hanabusa Ippō, Ehon zuhen (A Book of Pictures), Osaka, 1752, reproduced in Hanabusa Itchō ehon sanshu (Three Picture Books by Hanabusa Itchō), Tokyo, Taihei Shooku, 2006, pp. 78–79

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