Of rounded rectangular profile with applied cord-runners, decorated in iro-e takamaki-e, togidashi maki-e, kirikane, and hirame on a roiro-nuri ground with a large boat with figures and on the ground a landscape with mount Fuji, the interior cases nashiji lacquer, signed Kajikawa with red jar seal under the bottom, and a wood mask signed as netsuke. In very good conditions, very minor wears on the surface, ojime missing.9 cm high, 4,5 cm wideA FIVE-CASE LACQUER AND MOTHER OF PEARL INRO SIGNED KAJIKAWA, WITH SIGNED NETSUKE, JAPAN, EDO PERIOD (1603-1868), 19TH CENTURYProvenance: from the private collection of an important Italian ambassador and thence by descent