Five stag-horn kiseruzutsu (pipe cases)


Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th/20th centuryComprising two muso-zutsu and three otoshi-zutsu type, the first carved in high relief with a cat on a game board knocking the pieces onto the floor, the himotoshi carved as a branch of cherry blossoms; the second carved with four registers containing Chinese-style landscapes, inscribed Omi no haikei; the third carved in low relief with a bird in a willow tree; the fourth carved in low relief with a courtier standing on the stump of a pine tree before Mount Fuji, the himotoshi formed as a pine bough; the fifth carved in low and sunken relief with four registers containing landscapes and meisho-e (famous places), inscribed Omi no haikei(5) 9 1/4in (23.4cm) long, the largest