KOMA YASUTADAA Black-Lacquer Three-CaseInroEdo period (1615-1868), 19th centuryThe broad, flattened richroiro (black-lacquer) ground decorated in gold and silvertakamaki-e with a large eagle in flight, swooping low over turbulent waters searching for prey, the interior of red lacquer with matt-gold lacquer risers; signed on the base in gold lacquerKoma Yasutada saku.7.6cm x 8cm (3in x 3 1/8in).Provenance: Provenance:Hayashi Tadamasa (with an old handwritten collection label stuck on the base).Published:E. A. Wrangham,The Index of Inro Artists, Harehope, Northumberland, 1995, p.328, Koma Yasutada, bottom left.The design is taken fromGazu hyakkacho, a woodblock-printed book by Sekizushi Morinori, first published in 1729. The present design is no.3 illustrated in vol.1.