Inro

Description

Inro or medicine case, with four compartments, with tsuba, kozuka and lion-dogs fighting in relief on a nashiji lacquer ground, with a gold lacquered wood ojime and kagamibuta netsuke: Japan, 17th century

Museum reference

A.1930.323

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Inro, Netsuke, Kagamibuta netsuke, Ojime

Production information

Japan, East Asia

Date

17th century

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

Exhibitions

• Looking East: The Lady Ivy Wu Gallery (29 Jul 2011 - 08 Jun 2014)
  National Museum of Scotland