Project Description
Three-Case Roiro Lacquer Inro with a Dragon in the Snow by Koma Yasuaki
Decorated on each side with a dragon in toned gold and red takamakie over a roiro-kinpun ground with scattered flakes of kirigane suggestive of falling snow. The eyes are of crystal. A few losses of kirigane. With a wood saishiki ojime
Signed: koma yasuaki saku.
First half 19th century
7.7 cm
According to Wrangham in his Index the name Yasuaki was used by Koma Kyuhaku II, but often appears on inro produced later than his death in 1732. This seems to be the case here, though a later date does not imply that the inro is of inferior quality; far from it
MR4792
