A group of seven assorted yatate (portable writing sets)


Edo period (1615-1868) or Meiji era (1868-1912), 19th centuryComprising an amusing example formed as a shamisen, inscribed Yamadai ju; an unusual bronze rectangular example; a brass example decorated with whirlpools on the ink reservoir and a shrimp's tail on the hilt; a brass example decorated on the ink reservoir with a figure in iro-e takazogan and bamboo in kebori, indistinctly signed []unsai saku; a lacquer example decorated with ferns in gold hiramaki-e against a roiro-nuri ground; a silvered bronze example decorated with scrolling vines in kebori; a silvered-brass example decorated with deeply carved flowering vines and fitted with a one-case silver inro-style ink reservoir (7) 8 1/4in (21cm) long, the largest