A JAPANESE FOUR-CASE GOLD LACQUER INRO BY KOSAI MEIJI ERA, 19TH CENTURY Of rectangular rounded form, each side decorated with an actor from the Noh play Shakkyo (The Stone Bridge), one wearing a long red wig and wielding a bell clanger, the other half-kneeling and about to draw a sword, in gold takamakie and with e-nashiji details on a kinji ground, the faces made of silver inlays, signed Kosai underneath; with a jade ojime and a lacquered wood netsuke also modelled as an actor, the inro 8.6cm. See Bonhams London, the Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art Part IV, 6th November 2013, lot 279 for a related inro by Kosai.