Cover: Negoro lacquered wood smoking set. See Figure 1, page 17. Photo: Dana Levy
Cover: Lacquer inro, with design of black crows, in sumi-e togidashi on silver ground. Signed Iqju. For details, see p. 23. Photograph by Dana Levy
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Six kagamibuta: From top left, clockwise: Shoki and oni in ivory bowl, signed Temmin; Crab in walrus-tusk bowl, signed Chosei; Tsuba-shaped disk, with fly and beetle, in ivory bowl, signed Minjo; Danjuro in role of Shibaraku in carved ivory bowl, unsigned; New moon over grasses in ivory bowl, signed Shuraku; Rakan in wood bowl, signed Ryumin. Photograph by Dana Levy
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Sweet face of Seiba, Queen of the Fairies. Ivory unsigned. 18th C. From the Hume Collection (Also see page 26). Photograph by Michael B. Glass