19th centuryThe almost square outline with overhanging lid, the roiro ground decorated on the cover with three inro, each with a netsuke and an ojime, one of red lacquer with a gold-lacquer panel decorated with the sanbiki no saru (Three Mystic Apes), with an ivory mask netsuke, one of gold lacquer, with a lobster design in red lacquer, with a copper and a shakudo manju netsuke, and one of nashiji with a recumbent deer in Rinpa style, with a red-lacquer gourd netsuke, the interior similarly decorated with three tsuba of coloured lacquer, simulating old iron and shibuichi, on a nashiji ground, fitted with a suzuri (ink-stone), signed Nakamura Shume with kao, and a cloisonné enamel suiteki (water-dropper). 3.8cm x 24.1cm x 21.5cm (1?in x 9?in x 8?in). (7).