A fine shibuichi kogo, delicately carved with Shoki, his eyes inlaid in gold, his sword blade in
silver, the interior of the cover delicately carved with a fleeing oni under a large hat, the interior of
the base gilt.
Signed Seiki Yoshitaka-sen (carved)
Diameter 7 cm
Meiji period, circa 1900
With wood
box, inscribed (kogo with a design of shoki) Seiki Yoshitaka is recorded as a student of Shoami
Katsuyoshi, living in Okayama and Tokyo
£8,500