Lot 141 - Antique Japanese Bronze Yatate Portable Writing Set with Rat-Design Inkpot, Hinged Lid, and Kogatana Knife, 7-1/4" L

Lot 141 - Antique Japanese Bronze Yatate Portable Writing Set with Rat-Design Inkpot, Hinged Lid, and Kogatana Knife, 7-1/4" LAntique Japanese bronze yatate, a portable writing instrument combining a tubular handle and a rounded inkpot with a hinged lid. The handle is wrapped in a coiled wire design with two openwork windows revealing small applied rat figures. A square character mark is inlaid on the underside of the handle near the end cap. The rounded inkpot retains residual ink inside and opens on a hinged lid. No brush is included. A small kogatana (utility knife) with

All three photographs are mounted to period boards

tear and losses to paper labels

Neither of these imperfections impedes its operation

representing a wide variety of fashions

Hand-carved wood bust depicting a bearded man with a mustache

the knob simply spins without building tension

Black staining is present in spots on the mesh screen

In the 1910s it was also known as "Loew's Globe Theatre

featuring a serpent and leaf motif

Fitted with a wood handle

No photographer attribution

Note weathered paint