Title: Case (Inrō) with Design of People Catching Fireflies
Object type: Inrō
Date: 19th century
Culture: Japan
Period: Edo period (1615–1868)
Artist:  Koma Kōryū 
Artist bio: Japanese, died 1796
Artist nationality: Japanese
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Roiro (waxen) lacquer with decoration in togidashi sprinkled and polished lacquer and nashiji (pear-skin) lacquer; Interior: nashiji and fundame; Ojime: metal (zogan) inlay with spider; Netsuke: carved wood with stone inlay of snail on broken roof tile
Dimensions: 3 x 1 7/8 x 1 1/8 in. (7.6 x 4.8 x 2.8 cm)
Classification: Inrō
Credit line: The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936
Department: Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Human Figures