A rare lacquered-metal kozuka By Yamada Jokasai, after Kano Tan'yu, late 18th/early 19th century The black ishime ground lacquered with four prancing horses beneath a flowering cherry tree with clouds above, in gold and silver takamaki-e, the reverse of rogin-nuri with a single horse in sumi-e togidashi maki-e; signed Tan'yusai zu, Joka with a kao. Footnotes: リザーブ設定無し 小柄　桜に馬　銘「探幽斎図　常嘉（花押）」　18世紀後期/19世紀前期 Published: E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, 1995, p.98, Jokasai, Yamada, right column, bottom row, right. The work is after an original design by Kano Tan'yu (1602-1674), the most famous Kano painter of the 17th century. The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art: Part IV, lot 52. www.bonhams.com/auctions/20493/lot/52/ Lot to be sold without reserve. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com