In the two volumes more than 850 objects from the collection which belonged to Anne and Christian Trumpf, two leading netsuke collectors are exhaustively presented in text and pictures. These beguiling and fascinatinf miniature objects have become a very strong collecting subject.

This illustrated publication presents about 250 Inro from the Anna and Christian Trumpf collection of Inro, small, multipartite receptacles for seals and medicine, which were attached to a belt with the aid of a toggle (Netsuke), came into use in the sixteenth century and remained a prominent accessory in Japanese menswear until the late nineteenth century.