山田常嘉斎作 木蓮オウム蒔絵螺鈿印籠, Inrō with Cockatoo and Magnolia, Edo period (1615–1868), 19th century, Japan, Red lacquer ground with gold maki-e, carved red lacquer, and mother-of-pearl inlay, 3 5/8 x 1 13/16 x 1 3/16 in. (9.2 x 4.6 x 3 cm), Inrō, Yamada Jōkasai (Japanese, 1811–1879), Inrō are small containers with multiple chambers for holding medicinal herbs, seals, and other small items. They are worn suspended from a sash by means of small toggles that are known as netsuke. Use of inrō, which developed in lieu of pockets in traditional Japanese clothing, flourished from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century
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山田常嘉斎作 木蓮オウム蒔絵螺鈿印籠, Inrō, Cockatoo, Magnolia, Edo period, 1615–1868, 19th century, Japan, Red lacquer ground, gold maki-e, carved red lacquer, mother, pearl inlay, 3 5/8 x 1 13/16 3/16, 9.2 4.6 3 cm, Yamada Jōkasai, Japanese, 1811–1879, small containers, multiple chambers, holding medicinal herbs, seals items, worn suspended, sash, means toggles, netsuke, inrō, developed, lieu, pockets, traditional Japanese, clothing, flourished, seventeenth, nineteenth
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