A black-lacquer four-case inro By Okuda Yoshitsura, after Yuga and Kahei, 18th/19th century The vertical rectangular body with a roiro ground embellished with sparsely sprinkled gold powder, lacquered with a monkey hiding behind a rock from a swooping eagle amid pine branches and cloud bands, in gold and coloured takamaki-e with details of gold foil and highlights of kirikane, the ends of the cord runners strengthened with silver bands and the interior of nashiji with gold fundame shoulders and rims, signed on the base Okuda Yoshitsura ho (copied by Okuda Yoshitsura) and Yuga with a red kao, and inside the lid Kahei with another kao; with a guri-lacquer ojime. 7cm (2¾in) high. Footnotes: リザーブ設定無し 鷲に猿図蒔絵印籠　銘「奥田義貫倣」「幽峨（花押）」「加兵衛（花押）」　18/19世紀 Provenance: purchased at Sotheby's, London, 1972. Wrangham collection, no.1142. Published: E. A. Wrangham, The Index of Inro Artists, Alnwick, Harehope Publications, 1995, p.107, Kahei, bottom row, right; and p.339, Yoshitsura, Okuda. Nemoto Yuga (1824-1866) was a Kano-School painter active in Edo and Tottori, Inaba Province. The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art: Part VI, lot 111. www.bonhams.com/auctions/22338/lot/111/ Lot to be sold without reserve. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com