Four-case inrō (interlocking medicine case) of oval section with applied cord-runners, decorated in gold, silver, and colored hiramaki-e and takamaki-e and gold kinpun and hirame, depicting on one side twelve horses on the shore of river and on the other side seven horses, four of them already safely across the river and the other three about to reach the river bank, with reeds, pine trees, and waves; the compartments and risers gold nashiji; the shoulders and rims gold fundame

Signed on the base with gold hiramaki-e characters Kajikawa Tsunesada 梶川常貞with a kaō (artist’s monogram)
Ex Gilbertson Coll 1917; Ex Mrs. T.S. Hall Coll