With a fine “kinji ”lacquer ground and a decoration of the seven “kami” gods of good fortune. The scene in the style of “Kano Eitoku”, in gold, silver and richly colored “takamaki-e”, enhanced with “kirikane” details. The interior in gold lacquer. Signed “Kajikawa” with a red square seal “Hinode”, and “Eitoku sha”.According to Ted Wrangham the seal and signature are linked to the artist “Kajikawa Hidenobu” from the early 19th century. Please see “The index of Inro Artists”, E. A. Wrangham, 1995. p.71-72, Hidenobu.
Copies of famous paintings which suggest taste and classical education are eternally popular as note Else Kress in its book “Inro and their design drawings“. «Even if many of the original sources have been lost[…], a design is often based, directly or indirectly, on a work of famous painter”. Be that as it may, this scene was probably copied from an ehon book».