YAMADA JOKASAI (ACTIVE 19TH CENTURY)A large black-lacquer three-case inroEdo period (1615-1868), 19th centuryThe wide inro with a roiro-nuri ground sprinkled with dense green powder and decorated in gold and colored togidashi maki-e on one side with Gama Sennin and on the other with Tekkai Sennin, the interior of polished red and matte-gold lacquer, signed Jokasai 3 3/8in (8.5cm) high注脚ProvenanceE.A. Wrangham Collection, sold, Bonhams, London, The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art, Part I, November 9, 2010, lot 263Wrangham Collection, no.339Sir Trevor Lawrence Collection, no.576F.A. Richards Collection, purchased at Sotheby's London, 1964PublishedThe Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal, vol.14, no.2, p.31, fig. 20E.A.Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, Harehope, Nothumberland, 1995, p.99, Jokasai, second row, second from leftExhibitedAshmolean Museum, Oxford, 1972, no.21The images of Gama Sennin and Tekkai Sennin are taken from a painting by the fourteenth-century Chinese artist Yan Hui that was reproduced in Inro fu, a Japanese book of designs for inro taken from Chinese originals, published in 1717.