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Japan. 19th c. Ky?ho. Takamaki-e in gold and black on usu-nashiji ground with hirame flakes. One side with a flying sparrow, on the other a large pair of scissors. The motif refers to the story of the Tongue-cut Sparrow (Shita-kiri suzume). Four-part. Height 6.8cm. Sign.: Minsetsu & ka?. Manj?-netsuke: Shita-kiri suzume. 19th c. Wood with lacquer. ? 3.4cm. Inside sign.: Ikeshima Yoshinori & ka?. Ojime: Huts under trees. Wood. H. 1.9cm. Condition A/B. Provenance: -Collection Thacher-Clarke. -Collection M.T. Hindson, acquired at Sotheby's, London 1969. -Wrangham collection, no. 957. -Dutch private collection. Inr? acquired from Bonhams, The Edward Wrangham Collection of Japanese Art Part IV on 6 November 2013. Published: -Wrangham, E.A.: The Index of Inr? Artists. 1995. P. 158, Ky?ho, signature illustrated.