Japanese Ritsuo-style saya inro, Edo period, the rectangular exterior sheath with a pronounced wood grain and decorated in high relief with fruiting persimmon branches in gilt and colored takamakie with inlaid mother-of-pearl and pewter accents, signed [unread], the interior single case decorated with a Tokugawa (shogunal) family crest in gilt lacquer on a roiro ground, together with a mixed metal ojime of a crab on a lotus seed pod and a wooden double-gourd form netsuke with similar lacquer wood and inlay of trailing ivy vines (losses, wear), 3''h
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10:00 AM PT - Oct 12th, 2008
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5644 Telegraph Ave
Oakland, CA 94609
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