A gold-lacquer and metal-inlaid five-case inro By Koma Kansai and after Hamano Noriyuki, 19th century The vertical rectangular body inlaid with Jurojin and a deer with a boy attendant, the reverse with a crane flying over a running boy, decorated in high relief of gold, silver, copper, shakudo and shibuichi on a fundame ground with clouds of nashiji, takamaki-e and kirikane, the interior of nashiji; signed Kansai with a red kao and Noriyuki saku. 8.5cm (3 3/8in) high. Footnotes: 寿老人と唐子図貼付彫金蒔絵印籠　銘「寛哉（花押）」「矩隨作」　19世紀 Provenance: purchased at Hotel Drouot, Paris, 1971. Wrangham collection, no.1086. Published: E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, 1995, p.153, Kuzui II, second from bottom left. The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art: Part II, lot 233. www.bonhams.com/auctions/19295/lot/233/ For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com