LOT 121 An unusual wood two-case inro By Yanagawa Tomotada, 19th cen...
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An unusual wood two-case inro By Yanagawa Tomotada, 19th century The rectangular body carved in relief with the Kyokusui no utage (Floating-cup Ritual) showing literati and attendants floating wine cups on a zig-zag stream, while composing poems; signed Tomotada, with a copper and shakudo ojime cast with birds and pomegranates, unsigned. 7cm (2¾in) high. Footnotes: リザーブ設定無し 曲水の宴図木彫印籠 銘「伴忠」 19世紀 Provenance: purchased at Sotheby's, London, 1965. Wrangham collection, no.465. Published: E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, Harehope, Northumberland, 1995, p.319, Uratada. Although Wrangham gives the signature as Uratada 浦忠, the more likely reading is Tomotada 伴忠, listed by Wrangham (p.301) as a metalworker who carved netsuke and inro as a hobby. The Kyokusui no utage (Floating-cup Ritual) may have been introduced to Japan from China as early as 485 A.D. and had certainly found its place in the rituals of the imperial court by the middle of the eighth century, when it usually took place on the third day of the third month. Participants in Kyokusui no utage sit by a slow-moving zigzag stream and endeavour to complete poems in time to catch cups of sake which float by on little rafts. The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art: Part V, lot 205. www.bonhams.com/auctions/20555/lot/205/ Lot to be sold without reserve. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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