Super high-grade Tsubogasa-Menuki with Kirimon patterns. Famous Goto design. Excellent condition, which is a rare case with kirimon tsubogasa-menuki. Beautiful carving and precise inlay on finest nanako-ji.
Attributed to Goto Mitsumasa (1603-1673), 9th master of the Main-, Shirobei-line, who reworked an earlier work of Goto Kojo (1529-1620), 4th master of the Shirobei-line.
Papered together with a Kozuka NBTHK Koshu Tokubetsu Kicho – Special Extraordinary Work. Paper went with Kozuka.