The first of two unique catalogues of Japanese art to complete Sydney L. Moss's 2010 First Centenary celebrations this book features Elinor Nordskog's collection of inrõ ensembles, pipecases and netsuke, a selection formed over four decades, starting in the 1960's, and using exacting criteria and exquisite taste. Every object is beautifully illustrated and in life-size, and almost every ensemble of inrõ, netsuke and ojime is photographed both as a composite creative whole on its cord, and also with seperate reproductions of both sides of the inrõ alone.
 
In the collection is found a fairly large inrõ of a maple leaf and seedlings, with a total of eight ants seeking the maple's sugar content, by the great painter and lacquer artist Shibata Zeshin (1807–1891) of the late Edo and early Meiji period. Only a very few comparable works by Zeshin are known; one of them is the mulberry leaf and silkworms inrõ in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
 
See also "One hundred years of beatitude: A Centenary Exhibition of Japanese Art", published June 2011.