Yamaguchi Shojosai (1893-1978)A four-case lacquer inroTaisho (1912-1926) or Showa (1926-1989) era, 20th centuryThe red ground dusted with gold powder and decorated with a gold-lacquer panel of a young woman dreaming of lovemaking, in gold and colored takamaki-e, the reverse with a similar panel illustrating her erotic dream, based on a shunga design by the p[rint artsit Suzuki Harunobu (died 1770), the interior cases nashiji, signed Harunobu ga, Rosho utsusu (By Rosho, copied from Harunobu) 4in (10.2cm) high注脚ProvenanceE. A Wrangham Collection, sold, Bonhams, London, The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art, Part I, November 9, 2010, lot 321Wrangham Collection, no.505, purchased at Sotheby's, London, 1965ExhibitedAshmolean Museum, Oxford, 1972, no.58PublishedThe Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal, vol.7, no.2, p.18, figs.14a and 14bE.A.Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, Harehope, Northumberland, 1995, p.249, Shojosai, bottom row, second from left