Three Case Lacquer Inro with Tools by Kanshosai
Decorated in takamakie over a tan ishime like ground with a farmer’s kasa and mattock on one side, a carpenter’s square and line marker on the other, with inlays of shell and silver
Signed Kanshosai with kaō. Circa 1800
Height: 6.6 cm
The design is copied from Kano Tan’yu, illustrated in the celebrated ‘Gazu hyakkacho’ of 1729, no. 49
MR5364
