The set: Style of Araki Tomei (1817-1870), Edo period (1615-1868), mid-19th century; the eight kozuka: Edo period (1615-1868), late 18th/19th century The kozuka comprising a shakudo nanako plate set in a gilt-metal frame, chased in shakudo, gold, and silver relief with two quails and three heads of millet; the two menuki gold, each modelled as a quail pecking on a head of millet, unsigned, with a wood storage box; the eight kozuka unsigned except as noted; the first silver inlaid with mixed-metal relief and flat inlay of a cranes and the rising sun, signed Omori Terumitsu; the second copper, surface-treated and partially chiselled to imitate basketwork, with a wasp inlaid in shakudo; the third shibuichi, inlaid in mixed metals with shells for kai-awase (the shell-matching game); the fourth copper, chased and with gold, silver, and shakudo inlay of a wild boar crouching amidst autumn plants by moonlight; the fifth shibuichi chiselled in relief and gold inlay with two sumo wrestlers, signed Naoyuki with a kao; the sixth copper gilt nanako, decorated in chasing and gold inlay with massed cherry blossom around a torii shrine gateway; the seventh shakudo nanako with gold and silver relief inlay of a swallow and flowering prunus branch; the eighth shakudo nanako, chased and inlaid in gold and silver with Raiko and his men in disguise partying on Mount Oe with the Shuten Doji monster and his attendant ogres. (12).