Yamaguchi Shojosai (1893-1978) A four-case lacquer inro Taisho (1912-1926) or Showa (1926-1989) era, 20th century The red ground dusted with gold powder and decorated with a gold-lacquer panel of a young woman dreaming of lovemaking, in gold and colored takamaki-e, the reverse with a similar panel illustrating her erotic dream, based on a shunga design by the p[rint artsit Suzuki Harunobu (died 1770), the interior cases nashiji, signed Harunobu ga, Rosho utsusu (By Rosho, copied from Harunobu) 4in (10.2cm) high Fußnoten Provenance E. A Wrangham Collection, sold, Bonhams, London, The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art, Part I, November 9, 2010, lot 321 Wrangham Collection, no.505, purchased at Sotheby's, London, 1965 Exhibited Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1972, no.58 Published The Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal, vol.7, no.2, p.18, figs.14a and 14b E.A.Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, Harehope, Northumberland, 1995, p.249, Shojosai, bottom row, second from left
Yamaguchi Shojosai (1893-1978) A four-case lacquer inro Taisho (1912-1926) or Showa (1926-1989) era, 20th century The red ground dusted with gold powder and decorated with a gold-lacquer panel of a young woman dreaming of lovemaking, in gold and colored takamaki-e, the reverse with a similar panel illustrating her erotic dream, based on a shunga design by the p[rint artsit Suzuki Harunobu (died 1770), the interior cases nashiji, signed Harunobu ga, Rosho utsusu (By Rosho, copied from Harunobu) 4in (10.2cm) high Fußnoten Provenance E. A Wrangham Collection, sold, Bonhams, London, The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art, Part I, November 9, 2010, lot 321 Wrangham Collection, no.505, purchased at Sotheby's, London, 1965 Exhibited Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1972, no.58 Published The Netsuke Kenkyukai Study Journal, vol.7, no.2, p.18, figs.14a and 14b E.A.Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, Harehope, Northumberland, 1995, p.249, Shojosai, bottom row, second from left
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