Inrō with Fox's Wedding (Kitsune no yomeiri)

Japan · late 18th–early 19th century

Inrō with Fox's Wedding (Kitsune no yomeiri)

Five cases; lacquered wood with gold, silver takamaki-e, hiramaki-e, togidashimaki-e, irokomaki-e, kirikane (cut out gold foil) on nashiji ("pear skin") and black lacquer background

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0 1.0

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