An ivory kenbyo (table screen) By Yoho, Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th/early 20th century The rectangular panels intricately incised and carved in varying degrees of relief, one side with the famous warrior Kusunoki Masashige on horseback in front of a war curtain departing for his final battle, having entrusted a scroll on war strategy to his son Masatsura to whom he bids farewell; the reverse with Kojima Takanori standing beneath branches of cherry, writing on the tree trunk an inscription expressing confidence in the restoration of imperial power, within a lobed frame engraved with clouds, bordered by straight sides etched in black with geometric brackets, the whole raised on two bracket feet engraved with half-chrysanthemum blossoms on a wave-pattern ground; signed on both sides Yoho with a seal. 24cm x 20cm (9½in x 7 7/8in). 注脚 Provenance: An English private collection acquired mainly during the 1960s and 1970s.